Places ciffergan Wants to Go

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

This historic stone barn is the former home of legendary cattleman Charles “Lonesome Dove” Goodnight.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.

The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.

A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.