Places birresus Wants to Go

Welcome to a feel-good American drugstore, in the classic sense of the term.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A miner's handmade folk art fountains are tucked in the woods off a multilane highway. 

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

A small space-exploration exhibit hidden in a hotel.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.

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

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

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.

Opened in 1911, this small shop is the oldest ongoing establishment in St. George.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

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 quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.