Places goodepeggy Wants to Go

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

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

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

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

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

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

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

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

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

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.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

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