Places ktknoll Wants to Go

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

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

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.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

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

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

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

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

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.

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

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

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

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

"May the force be with you always."