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Some of Plescia's art can be seen from the street
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Salt Lake City, Utah

Ralphael Plescia's "Christian School"

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

The sculpture (of an eagle perched on a beehive) atop the Eagle Gate in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Eagle Gate Monument

Built in 1859, this eagle-topped archway marks the entrance to Brigham Young’s property.

Provo Pioneer Village

Provo, Utah

Provo Pioneer Village

Nineteenth-century cabins and volunteer re-enactors offer a window into history.

Pink quartz crystal from broken geode at Dugway

Terra, Utah

Dugway Geode Beds

Ancient volcanic activity made this into an exciting rockhounding site.

Seagull Monument in Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Seagull Monument

Next to Salt Lake City's Assembly Hall stands a tribute to some unlikely heroes of early Mormon settlers.

View of the back of the secondary dike as it exists today.

Hurricane, Utah

Quail Creek Reservoir

An unprepossessing storage reservoir in southern Utah has a checkered past.

Page Ranch House

Cedar City, Utah

Page Ranch House

Built at the turn of the 20th century, using bricks made and fired from clay found on the property.

A series of storefronts resembling an Old Western town.

Virgin, Utah

Fort Zion

A kitschy stop on the way to Zion National Park.

The interior of the Control Tower is still undergoing work. Note the row of hangars in the background in this eastward view.

Wendover, Utah

Historic Wendover Airfield

This pristine World War II airfield gives a comprehensive look at atomic development and aviation history.

Ensign Peak

Salt Lake City, Utah

Ensign Peak

In 1847, Brigham Young climbed this hill to survey the Salt Lake Valley and saw a fine place to build a city.

T-486 Patriot.

Corinne, Utah

ATK Rocket Garden

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

Allen Park

Salt Lake City, Utah

Allen Park

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

View NNE.  Edge of Cedar Mountain at the left side of the photo.

Castle Dale, Utah

Wedge Overlook

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

Quarry Exhibit Hall

Jensen, Utah

Quarry Exhibit Hall

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Right of way looking northerly.

Corinne, Utah

Transcontinental Railroad Back Country Byway

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

Exhibit in the museum.

Salina, Utah

CCC & POW Camp

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

A sign proudly proclaiming the restaurant's claim to fame.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Site of the World's First KFC

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

Checkerboard Mesa

Utah

Checkerboard Mesa

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

Anderson Tower Monument

Salt Lake City, Utah

Anderson Tower Monument

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

The Summum Pyramid

Salt Lake City, Utah

Summum Pyramid

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

House on Fire Ruin

San Juan County, Utah

House on Fire Ruin

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

Landscape Arch

Moab, Utah

Landscape Arch

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

Four Corners Monument

Teec Nos Pos, Utah

Four Corners Monument

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Nine Mile Canyon - the BLM has advised it as "an area of critical environmental concern"

Carbon County, Utah

Nine Mile Canyon

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

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