Places yyyzzz Wants to Go

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.

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

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

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

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

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

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

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

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

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

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

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

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

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