Places kristenwilloughby Wants to Go

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

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

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

This church was constructed by a shipbuilder and designed like an upside-down boat.

Built at the turn of the 20th century, using bricks made and fired from clay found on the property.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

The first motion picture theater in southern Utah, reimagined and renovated as an arts hub.

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

The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

Not your typical pet cemetery.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

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

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

Opened in 1911, this small shop is the oldest ongoing establishment in St. George.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

The only ski tunnel in North America provides easy access to amazing snow and beautiful views.

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

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.