Places byorgason Wants to Go

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

The only ski tunnel in North America provides easy access to amazing snow and beautiful views.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

The first motion picture theater in southern Utah, reimagined and renovated as an arts hub.

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

Built at the turn of the 20th century, using bricks made and fired from clay found on the property.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

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.

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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

Built in 1917, this building is home to the last working spring-loaded dance floor in Utah.

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

Dedicated to an airmail pilot who never let go of his important payload.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

This mural changes every few years.

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

A late-19th century diversion canal built by hand crosses Bryce Canyon National Park and is still in use.

Ride a mechanical corn dog at the alleged birthplace of America's favorite deep-fried wiener.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

This classic Kansas City song reference is the place for anyone who wants to stand at the corner of 12th Street and Vine.

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

The world's largest otter started his life as a high school shop project.