Places clpartin Wants to Go

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A replica that won't float away.

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.