Places JanianiM Wants to Go

A kitschy stop on the way to Zion National Park.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.

Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

Nothing to see here.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

An unprepossessing storage reservoir in southern Utah has a checkered past.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

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

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

The stone circle honors the 19 firemen who perished during the Yarnell Hill Fire.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

Massive crater in central Oregon.