Places goodepeggy Wants to Go

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

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

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

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.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

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

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

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

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

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

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