Places happygrim Wants to Go

This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

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

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

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

Home of mutant livestock.

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

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

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.