Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.