Places arod8205 Wants to Go

It's easy to forget what century it is as you wander this rustic homestead.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

This hot dog-shaped diner has moved all around Colorado, but has never been to New York.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

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

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