Shawb1's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Shawb1

I love to travel. I've been to all 50 States and 6 Continents

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Places visited in Moab, Utah

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Places edited in McMurdo Station, Antarctica

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Places visited in Corinne, Utah

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Places visited in McMurdo Station, Antarctica

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Places visited in Cedar City, Utah

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Little America, Wyoming

Little America

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

calivaweir

Added by calivaweir

Territorial Statehouse State Park Museum

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

Added by hwalker587

Metaphor: The Tree of Utah

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

Added by emallen

The Spiral Jetty

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

Added by tvstay

North Ogden, Utah

Stump Spring

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

Added by hwalker587

Eccles Dinosaur Park

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

KaliaK

Added by KaliaK

Star Noodle Dragon

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

kjmoore12

Added by kjmoore12

Thistle Ghost Town

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

Added by Liddell

Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake

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

Dylan

Spanish Fork, Utah

Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Added by Soozcat

Homestead Crater

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Added by gailberg

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City Public Library

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

Salt Lake City, Utah

Gilgal Sculpture Garden

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Snelgrove Ice Cream Cone

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

kjmoore12

Added by kjmoore12

Kennecott Utah Copper-Bingham Canyon Mine

Largest man-made excavation on earth!