Places obstakel Wants to Go

A wondrous place to watch a special flower bloom.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

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

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

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

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

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

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

Colorado's only active volcano last erupted around 4,000 years ago.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

The gravestone of a famous poet features a fittingly poetic epitaph chosen by the writer himself.