Places AMischiefManaged Wants to Go

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

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

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.

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

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

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.