Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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 quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

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.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

This now-protected stone circle is an archeological mystery and a stellar viewpoint.

Discover this sandstone alcove, a geologic wonder in southern Utah, that continues to slowly shape shift.

One of the most intact and well-preserved skeletons of a mammoth in the world is displayed in a tiny Utah town.

Ancient volcanic activity made this into an exciting rockhounding site.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.