Places avexplore Wants to Go

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

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

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

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

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

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

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

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

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

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

This maintained cabin is where Josie Morris, an occasional associate of Butch Cassidy, lived out the last 50 years of her life by herself.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.

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

A unique collection of drawings that represent Fremont Native American culture.

This hiking trail is scattered with the remains of a failed attempt to provide water to farmers in Dry Fork Canyon.

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

The natural history of Utah is on full display inside this museum.

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

One of the most intact and well-preserved skeletons of a mammoth in the world is displayed in a tiny Utah town.