Places Rick Brown Wants to Go

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

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

A replica that won't float away.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This unique competition celebrates an American Indian and Canadian First Nation cultural tradition.