Places ciffergan Wants to Go

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

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

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.