Places Allen Thomas Wants to Go

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.

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 ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

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

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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.

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

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

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

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

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

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

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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

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.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.