Places fivrik Wants to Go

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

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

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

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

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

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

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

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

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

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

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

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

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

This ruined fort and statue are a testament to the last king of Kaua‘i’s savvy diplomacy skills, which briefly brought Russians to Hawai‘i.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.