Places kristenwilloughby Wants to Go

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

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

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.

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

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

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

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

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

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

"May the force be with you always."

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

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

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

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

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

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

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

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

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

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

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