Florence, Texas
‘It’s Chaos, Be Kind’
A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Florence, Texas
A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.
Ouray, Colorado
A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.
Ouray, Colorado
A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.
Telluride, Colorado
This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.
Austin, Texas
Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.
Austin, Texas
Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.
Austin, Texas
This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.
Austin, Texas
This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.
Austin, Texas
This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Wendover, Utah
Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.
Wendover, Utah
A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.
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.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.
Salt Lake City, Utah
This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.
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
A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.
Herriman, Utah
Largest man-made excavation on earth!
Herriman, Utah
A replica that won't float away.
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Little America, Wyoming
Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.
Rawlins, Wyoming
This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.