The World's Most Beautiful Places
A decorated Christmas tree with lights covered in snow at This is the Place Heritage Park in the Wasatch Foothills above Salt Lake City, Utah. The park is an open-air museum featuring historic buildings and documents the arrival of the Mormon (LDS) pioneers in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley July 24, 1847.
A front view of the recently christen Provo City Center Temple, showing its stained glass windows and front gate. Although the Provo City Center Temple was dedicated as the 150th LDS Temple, its history dates back to 1898, when it was constructed as the Provo Mormon Tabernacle. It was a fire that gutted all but the outer structure of the Tabernacle, that led its reconstruction, and dedication as an LDS Temple in 2016.
A stylized view of the Handcart Pioneer Monument Statue by Torleif Soviren Knaphus. The monument is remembrance of Mormon pioneers who crossed the American West with little more than what could be carried in handicart similar to that pictured. Between 1846 and 1868, approximately 10% of the emigrants coming from the East. Most handcart pioneers were poor emigrants from Scotland, England, Wales and Scandinavia.
The statue is located at Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, on the south side, between the LDS Temple and the Tabernacle.