Places happygrim Wants to Go

A replica that won't float away.

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

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

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

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

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

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

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

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

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.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

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

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

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

This overlooked gem outside Niagara Falls preserves and celebrates Iroquois culture.

Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.