Places billc Wants to Go

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Rare and gorgeous birds abound in this protected wildlife sanctuary.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

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

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

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

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.