The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

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

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

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

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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.

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

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.