Places thecloudminder Wants to Go

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

This historic trading post has been serving the community since 1913.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

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

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

The natural history of Utah is on full display inside this museum.