Places tsshrooms Wants to Go

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

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

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

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

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

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

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

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

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

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.