Places Leah Nelson Wants to Go

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

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

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

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

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

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.

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

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

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

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

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

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

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

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

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