Places mrlionman Wants to Go

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

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

"May the force be with you always."

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

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

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

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

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

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

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

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.