Places Rick Brown Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

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

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

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

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