Places Mike Walker Wants to Go

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

A copy of the famous bus used during the filming of 'Into the Wild' is on display at an Alaska brewery.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

Yup, that's where the name came from.

The seventh largest spring in the world.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The natural history of Utah is on full display inside this museum.

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

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.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

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

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

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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.

Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.