Places Mama Shotts Wants to Go

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

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

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

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

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

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

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

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

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