Places byorgason Wants to Go

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

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

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

"May the force be with you always."

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

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

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

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

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.