Places RandomGuy Wants to Go

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

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

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

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

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

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

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

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

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

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

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

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

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

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

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

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

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.