Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Salt Lake City

Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Salt Lake City? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Gilgal Sculpture Garden, Spiral Jetty, Sun Tunnels and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Salt Lake City they'd never find on their own.

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Gilgal Sculpture Garden Tucked behind houses and a strip of businesses, this quarter-acre lot is where LDS bishop and stonemason Thom… Central City, Salt Lake City
Spiral Jetty In 1970 Robert Smithson bulldozed 6,500 tons of black basalt into a 1,500-foot counterclockwise coil jutting… Rozel Point, Box Elder County (Great Salt Lake)
Sun Tunnels Nancy Holt sank four 18-foot-long, 9-foot-diameter concrete culverts into open desert in 1976 and drilled hol… Near Lucin, Box Elder County (west desert, near Nevada line)
International Peace Gardens Twenty-eight nations were each handed a plot along the Jordan River since 1939 and told to build whatever fel… Jordan Park, Poplar Grove, Salt Lake City
McCune Mansion Copper-and-railroad magnate Alfred McCune's 21-room 1901 Victorian later ran for decades as an LDS-affiliated… Downtown