Places Pengwn Wants to Go

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

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

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

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

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

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.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

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

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

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

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

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.