Places Primo Wants to Go

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

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

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

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.

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

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

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

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A replica that won't float away.

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

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.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.