Places drakejwood Wants to Go

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

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

A replica that won't float away.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

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

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

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

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

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

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

"May the force be with you always."