Places ElkFlat Wants to Go

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

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

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

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

Designed in 1887, this clock from the county office clock tower has been restored and is on full display.

"May the force be with you always."

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

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

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

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

A diorama lover's dream world.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.