Places crankyavocado Wants to Go

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

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

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

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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

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

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

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

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

A replica that won't float away.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

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.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.