Places esftripod Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

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

A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.

An important piece of history from mankind's journey to the moon sits in the lobby of a government science lab.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)