Places avexplore Wants to Go

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The only ski tunnel in North America provides easy access to amazing snow and beautiful views.

This former wildlife sanctuary is being transformed into an art park.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

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

This mural changes every few years.

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

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

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

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.

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

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

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

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

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

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

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

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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