Places CuriousMichele Wants to Go

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

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.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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

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

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

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

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

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

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.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

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

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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