Places grantavery Wants to Go

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

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

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

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

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

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

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

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

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

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

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

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

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

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

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

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

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

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

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