Places thecoolhobbit Wants to Go

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

A magical sanctuary of mythological statuary.

A monument dedicated to three unlikely visitors to North America.

A historic hotel with many stories of haunted activity.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.