Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

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

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

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

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.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

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

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

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.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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.

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

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

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

A natural rock formation believed to be a cure-all.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.