Hanksville, Utah
Carl's Critter Garden
This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.
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Hanksville, Utah
This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.
Hanksville, Utah
This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.
Green River, Utah
Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.
Green River, Utah
A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.
Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
Thompson Springs, Utah
Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.
Thompson, Utah
A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.
Moab, Utah
Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.
Moab, Utah
This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.
Moab, Utah
This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Moab, Utah
A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.
Castle Valley, Utah
These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Mack, Colorado
This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.
Fruita, Colorado
It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.
New Castle, Colorado
A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.
Estes Park, Colorado
The start of the group that straightened the teeth of a nation.
Hershey, Pennsylvania
This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.
Lansing, Michigan
Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.
Madison, Wisconsin
Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.
Springfield, Illinois
The empty tomb that houses the memories of Roy Bertelli's revenge.