Places ahuntt32 Wants to Go

You can dig for your own 52-million-year-old fish fossils.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

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 interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

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

This now-protected stone circle is an archeological mystery and a stellar viewpoint.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.