Places jmpeters67 Wants to Go

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

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

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

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

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

In 1847, Brigham Young climbed this hill to survey the Salt Lake Valley and saw a fine place to build a city.

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

Built in 1859, this eagle-topped archway marks the entrance to Brigham Young’s property.

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

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

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

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

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

A replica that won't float away.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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

Pay a visit to America's oldest yarn shop.

These 100-year-old tunnels in downtown Provo house artists, restaurants, and a few surprises.

A fully functional, commercial, miniature art gallery.

One of the most intact and well-preserved skeletons of a mammoth in the world is displayed in a tiny Utah town.

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

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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