Places kristenwilloughby Wants to Go

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

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

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

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

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

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

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

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

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

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

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

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.