Places jamesarvidson Wants to Go

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

An unprepossessing storage reservoir in southern Utah has a checkered past.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

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

This rural museum highlights Wyoming's era of trapping and fur trades, and hosts the annual Green River Rendezvous in July.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

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

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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

Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.

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.

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

This prehistoric karst cave is situated near a working ranch and historic warm springs.

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

Idaho’s largest, deepest limestone cave is known for its quirky rock formations and bat population.