Places hannahdedens Wants to Go

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

This now-protected stone circle is an archeological mystery and a stellar viewpoint.

One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

A short tunnel built straight through a magmatic dike.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

A picturesque (all-natural!) beach in a landlocked state.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Let Ouray’s tallest waterfall sweep your breath away on a dealer’s choice of scenic hikes.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

This alpine statue of Jesus in Silverton is said to protect both miners and local economies.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.