Places aRedLetterLife Wants to Go

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

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.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

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

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

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

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

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

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

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

A replica of the straw hut where Vladimir Lenin lived in hiding, disguised as a hay farmer, in 1917.

An unusual collection of self-made musical instruments and unique noises.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.