Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

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

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

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

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

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

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

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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

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.

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

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

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

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

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

A replica that won't float away.

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.

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.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.