Salt Lake City, Utah
Site of the World's First KFC
In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.
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Salt Lake City, Utah
In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.
Salt Lake City, Utah
An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.
Salt Lake City, Utah
This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.
Salt Lake City, Utah
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.
Salt Lake City, Utah
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.
Moran, Wyoming
Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.
Rapid City, South Dakota
A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.
Bedford, Pennsylvania
Overshadowed by quilts, the artistry of these patterned textiles went underappreciated for too long.
Bedford, Pennsylvania
Descend into a subterranean labyrinth of geologic wonder and local lore.
Bedford, Pennsylvania
This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.
Scarbro, West Virginia
Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.
Alderson, West Virginia
The lasting remains of a historic spa.
Gilbert, West Virginia
Sample original Hatfield family moonshine at this distillery in southern West Virginia.
Hillsboro, West Virginia
West Virginia’s largest bog is home to rare carnivorous plants.
Randolph County, West Virginia
In 1869, Swiss and German immigrants settled in this small town in the mountains of West Virginia.
Fairmont, West Virginia
The center preserves and houses artifacts ranging from the colonial era to modern times from across Appalachia.
Circleville, West Virginia
This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.
Walker, West Virginia
Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.
Hillsboro, West Virginia
The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.
Keyser, West Virginia
This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.
Sutton, West Virginia
A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.