Places sarahltait Wants to Go

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

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

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

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

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

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

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

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.