Places aimeebint Wants to Go

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

A delightful Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale experience, not far off the interstate.

Among the cornfields stands a giant spider crafted from an old Volkswagen.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

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

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

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

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

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

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

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.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

The natural history of Utah is on full display inside this museum.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.