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TheLabRatKing

Best described in the obsolete term “Naturalist”. Biologist, retired sailor, artist, Jack of all trades and solo adventurer.

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Eccles Dinosaur Park

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

KaliaK

Added by KaliaK

Factory Butte

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

Marin Stefani

Added by Marin Stefani

Monticello, Utah

Newspaper Rock

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

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Henrieville, Utah

Kodachrome Basin Spires

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

Added by robemberson

Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Dylan

Museum of Ancient Life

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Josh

Parowan Gap Petroglyphs

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Garfield County, Utah

Burr Trail Switchbacks

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

Added by zackofalltrades

Escalante, Utah

Hell's Backbone Scenic Road

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Added by lastpearl

Bonneville Salt Flats / Bonneville Speedway

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Added by zackofalltrades

The Spiral Jetty

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

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Carbon County, Utah

Nine Mile Canyon

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Ryan Lamb

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Ice Cave of Bixby State Preserve

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

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Toquima Cave

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Round Mountain, Nevada

Diana's Punch Bowl

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

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Winnemucca Lake

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

DannyBoy

Added by DannyBoy

Metropolis Ghost Town

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

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Duck Creek Village, Utah

Cascade Falls

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

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Creede, Colorado

Wheeler Geologic Area

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

cyccommute

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Middletown, Connecticut

Joe Webb Peoples Museum

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

Johnmeszaros

Added by Johnmeszaros

South Kolan, Australia

Mystery Craters

The 25-million-year-old cavities have perplexed people for decades.

Added by miriamshendroff

Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

Museo Bichos Querétaro (Querétaro Bugs Museum)

One man's personal collection of more than 2,000 creepy-crawlies from around the world.

Mario Yair TS

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Gateway, Colorado

Unaweep Canyon

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

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Florissant, Colorado

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

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