Places ambermriley Wants to Go

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

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

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

Wayne Newton's sprawling estate is now open for visitors to catch a glimpse of his "heart and soul."

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

Mine your own precious stones.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.