A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

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

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

"May the force be with you always."

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

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.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

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

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

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

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.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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