Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

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

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

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

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

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

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

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

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.