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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Monticello, Utah

Hole N" the Rock

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Panguitch, Utah

Butch Cassidy's Childhood Home

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

WhiskeyBristles

Added by WhiskeyBristles

Mill Creek

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

nho245

Added by nho245

Potash Evaporation Ponds

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

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Upheaval Dome

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

Added by zackofalltrades

Landscape Arch

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

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Sego, Utah

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Rachel

Added by Rachel

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!