Places sarahebpms Wants to Go

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.