Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

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

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

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

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

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

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.

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

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

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

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

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

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.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

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 small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.