Places maurverick Wants to Go

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

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

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

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

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

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

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

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.

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

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

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

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

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

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

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

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

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

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

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.

This notorious dive has been serving up both kinds of spirits since 1879.

In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.