Places KR Peart Wants to Go

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

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

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

This magnificent natural sandstone bridge is one of the largest in the world and is an iconic symbol for Lake Powell.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

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

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

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.

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

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

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

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

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

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.