Places Rick Brown Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

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

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

"May the force be with you always."

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.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

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

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

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

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

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.