Places mrlionman Wants to Go

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Built at the turn of the 20th century, using bricks made and fired from clay found on the property.

Designed in 1887, this clock from the county office clock tower has been restored and is on full display.

Pay a visit to America's oldest yarn shop.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

These 100-year-old tunnels in downtown Provo house artists, restaurants, and a few surprises.

The first motion picture theater in southern Utah, reimagined and renovated as an arts hub.

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

Not your typical pet cemetery.

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

Opened in 1911, this small shop is the oldest ongoing establishment in St. George.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.

This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.

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

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

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

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

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