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

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

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

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

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

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

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

Walk in the footsteps of the famed astronaut at Purdue University.

Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.

Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

This tombstone marks the final resting place of the beloved 1990's character, Ernest P. Worrell.

This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

The world's longest known cave system.