No visit to Salt Lake is complete without a stop at the Salt Flats.A salt desert, you can see the curve of the Earth here!Hanhan, not trusting the signs, tasted the salt flats.It's salt.Going to get Mormon history.Very interesting. The LDS Temple.Tabernacle and Temple.It was supposed to rain. Really!Lots of Mormon's had to pull a hand cart because they had lost everything in Illinois and Missouri.The Angel Moroni stands atop the Temple. A rocket factory and test area is about 3 miles from the Golden Spike site.Just 100 years seperate the rail feat from the moon landing.The Great Salt Lake.I decided to trust that the lake is actually salty.Old train station in downtown Salt Lake.Very nicely restored. Garden in front of Brigham Young's house.The flowers are very dense and colorful.This was called Lion House.Lion is one of Brigham Young's nicknames among Mormons.Hanhan on Mars.Missed a turn using Google Maps... Stupid Great Basin rattlesnake!They are rare. They'll be more rare as soon as I kill this one.We visited the University of Utah's garden.Everything was in full bloom. English GardenRoses abound here.This one was very fragrant.The front of the Temple. Golden Spike NHS