Some not-so-common sites around Temple Square.

1. Meridian Marker—Location: Temple Square, outside the southeast corner. It is a sandstone obelisk that serves as the center of SLC. The current marker is a replica of the original (now in the Church History Museum). All addresses in the valley are stated in relation to this marker.
2. Cedar of Lebanon—Location: Temple Square, just to the north inside the East Gate. This majestic tree was only 1 foot high when it was brought from Israel in 1949.
3. South Visitors Center—Location: Temple Square, just inside the south entrance. A painting by Joseph F. Brickey shows "Our Heavenly Father's Plan for Families." The painting is read from left to right—backward from normal. Why do think this is so?          Walk outside the northeast exit and look up to see the United States Meridian Base. This U-shaped stone was a telescope base for an observatory built in 1869 and use by Elder Orson Pratt of the Quorum of the Twelve. The observatory is gone, but a replica of the original base remains in the exact same spot. That observatory was part of a series of similar government observatories across he country that were used to establish local time and it was used to regulate the city's clocks until the end of 1897.
4. Salt Lake Temple—Can you find the big Dipper on the west side of the temple? Near the southwest corner is a locust bush that is so large it looks like a tree. It was damaged a little when a freak tornado came through SLC in 1999, but it still stands - with a little help.
5. Assembly Hall—Location: Temple Square. At the entrance there are old boot scrapers. Clean your soles before you go in to clean your soul. Look at the spires. How many square-tip ones can you find? The square tip served as a chimney in times gone by.
6. Temple Square west exit gate—Very close to the southwest corner of the Tabernacle is a small leaf imprinted into the concrete sidewalk. Can you find it?          Look to the North of the gate outside Temple Square. There is an archway in the wall. Water diverted from City Creek used to flow through Temple Square to run machinery (not the organ, as sometimes supposed). This reconstructed arch is a little south of where the original was located.
7. Church History Museum—Location: 45 N. West Temple. Just enjoy. Don't miss the Deuel pioneer log home just outside the Museum. It is only one of two pioneer log homes that remain intact. The structure was once located on Temple Square.
8. Lion House—Location: Next door to Lion House. Eliza R. Snow who was married to Brigham Young, lived in a small room in the Lion House. Her window was the fourth gable from the northwest corner. The room itself is gone and is now part of a larger banquet room. It is not open for tours.
9. Beehive House—Location: Corner of South Temple and State Street.
10. Brigham Young farm original stone wall—Location: Brigham Young Memorial Park, Southeast corner of State Street and North Temple. Walk all the way to the east side of the park, past the water wheel and up the steps. A 9-ft.-high wall surrounded Brigham Young's farm. A short remnant still preserves the original curve of the wall. Look for this curve in the model of 1870's SLC in the Church History Museum.
11. Mormon Pioneer Memorial Park—Location: 140 E. First Ave. This is the burial site of Brigham Young and Eliza R. Snow, a former Relief Society President. Several blocks east at the Salt Lake City Cemetery (200 North and N Street) is where 11presidents of the Church are buried.
12. Kimball-Whitney Cemetery and Park—Location: Just east of the Conference Center, midway up the block on the east side of Main Street. Follow the brick path between the Kimball apartments and the Deseret apartments. 
13. Heber J. Grant home—Location: 174 E. South Temple, on the south side of the street. This home was built in 1904 by President Heber J. Grant wife, Augusta, while he was on a mission in Europe. President Grant lived there until about the time he became President of the LDS Church. This home is not open for tours, and is the office attorney E. Graig Smay, who was restoring the building. Notice the original sandstone sidewalk in front of the home.
14. Wilford Woodruff home—Location: 1604 S. 500 E. This privately owned home is now the site of a monument that was dedicated in June by the Holladay Chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers. The nearby First Encampment Park (1700 S 500 E.) was built in 1997 as a memorial to mark the first area where the pioneers camped in the Sale Lake Valley.
15. 10th Ward Square—Location: 800 E. 400 S. This complex has undergone much change, but is still representative of the pioneer era, when Saints used to worship at the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Sundays and use ward meetinghouse for everyday life. The meetinghouse was both a school and social gathering place. The chapel, which President Hinckley used to attend as a youth, was added around 1910.
16. Gilgal Sculpture Garden—Location: 749 E. 500 S. Now a city park, the quirky garden filled with engrave stones created by Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. can be fascinating and fun place.
17. 18th Ward Chapel replica—Location: 300 N. State, across from the State Capitol. The old 18th Ward Chapel is where Brigham Young's family attended church. The building still features several of the original parts and reflects the simplicity of the early Saints in Utah.
18. Mormon Battalion Monument—Location: Ensign Peak.  Mormon Battalion monument is visible just north of the chapel on the Capitol building lawn. Overlooking the area is Ensign Peak, where Brigham Young and some of the apostles looked out over the valley.

(Source: Mormon Times, Saturday, May 15, 2010)

If you have some spare time in SLC, maybe you can check out some places on this list.  I know there are some places I haven't visited and things I haven't noticed. ENJOY!