Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

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

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

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

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

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

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.