Places Kelsey Kennedy Wants to Go

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The largest drain hole in the world.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.