Places CapnMunch Wants to Go

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

The Gulf’s longest fishing pier is a year-round paradise for catch-and-release whoppers.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

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

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

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

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

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

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

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

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

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

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

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

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

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