Places stumpa Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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."

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.