Places raquel9e Wants to Go

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

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.

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

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

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

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

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

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.

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

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

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

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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

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

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.