A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

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

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

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

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

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

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.