Places phildzielski Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

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

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

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

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

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

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

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

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

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

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.