Places Allen Thomas Wants to Go

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

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

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

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

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

"May the force be with you always."

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

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

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

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

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.