Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

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

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

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

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

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