Places crayolabird Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.