Places matteakle Wants to Go

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

This set of hot springs also comes with fantastic views.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

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.

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

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

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

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

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

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

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

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.