Places Dave Bastian Wants to Go

This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.

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 museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

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

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.

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

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

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

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

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

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

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

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

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

This Prescott institution is widely considered the oldest bar in Arizona.

Hikers and walkers flock to this historic volcanic butte for its scenic desert views.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.