Places ike1212 Wants to Go

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

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

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

This pristine World War II airfield gives a comprehensive look at atomic development and aviation history.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

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

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

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

This municipal park along the Missouri River honors the galley central to the Lewis & Clark Expedition with a replica ship and sculptures.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

Over a million artifacts fill this factory-turned-museum that explores the history of American windmill production.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.