Parachute, Colorado
Rulison Nuclear Test Site
The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.
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Parachute, Colorado
The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.
Vernal, Utah
A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.
Panguitch, Utah
The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.
Vernal, Utah
An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Delta, Colorado
The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.
Fillmore, Utah
The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.
Spanish Fork, Utah
An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Rangely, Colorado
Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.
San Juan County, Utah
An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.
Fairview, Utah
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
Garfield County, Utah
Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.
Salina, Utah
Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.
Bedrock, Colorado
A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.
Fruita, Colorado
It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.
Paradox, Colorado
The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.
Mack, Colorado
This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Torrey, Utah
A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Hanksville, Utah
A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.
Moab, Utah
This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.