Places curiosity Wants to Go

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

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

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

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

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

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.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

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.

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

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

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