Lehi, Utah
John Hutchings Museum
The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.
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Lehi, Utah
The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.
Salt Lake City, Utah
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Syracuse, Utah
The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Calipatria, California
The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.
Goleta, California
A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.
San Francisco, California
A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.
San Francisco, California
Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.
San Francisco, California
A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.
Palo Alto, California
This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.
San Francisco, California
With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.
Holbrook, Arizona
This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.
Phoenix, Arizona
Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.
Tucson, Arizona
This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."
Salina, Utah
Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.
Parowan, Utah
Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.
Austin, Nevada
This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.
Groom Lake, Nevada
In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.