Places Kelsey Kennedy Wants to Go

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Small museum dedicated to the founder of electromagnetic theory.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.