Places CuriousMichele Wants to Go

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

The only ski tunnel in North America provides easy access to amazing snow and beautiful views.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

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

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

"May the force be with you always."

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

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.