Places Ancientproof Wants to Go

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

"May the force be with you always."

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

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

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

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

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

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

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

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

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

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

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.

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

The world's last remaining store of its kind.