Places avexplore Wants to Go

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

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.

This set of hot springs also comes with fantastic views.

At the site of the most dangerous crossings on the Oregon Trail, a museum explores the complex history of westward migration in America.

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

This underground cave located in the most barren reaches of Idaho is filled with ice year-round.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This hidden gem along the Utah-Arizona border is truly worth the rugged journey.

This Native American settlement dates back to the Pueblo II period.

Hike up to this ancestral grain storage site, but don't touch.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

A blast of nostalgia awaits visitors to this miniature indoor raceway.

The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.