Places kattrewerts Wants to Go

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

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

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.