Places Mama Shotts Wants to Go

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

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

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

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

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

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

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

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

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

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

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

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

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

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

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

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

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

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

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