Places astalans Wants to Go

A phone booth crammed with books marks the path to a house-turned-bookstore in Alaska.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

At a lodge and RV park is a collection of headwear that comes in at more than 11,300 and counting.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

Not your typical pet cemetery.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

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

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

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

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

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

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

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

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.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.