Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

At this historic pub, you can sit back, sip, and watch a whole century go by.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.