Places risingsperanza Wants to Go

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

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

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

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

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

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

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

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

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

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

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

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