Places afink Wants to Go

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

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

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

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

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

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.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

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

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.