Places derekawalker Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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