Places sarahltait Wants to Go

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

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

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

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

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

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

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

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

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

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

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

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

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

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

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

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

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.