Places mamaemeritus3 Wants to Go

The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.

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

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.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

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

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

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

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

This mural changes every few years.

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

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

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

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

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

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."