Places LlibbyScorse Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

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

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

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

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

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

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