This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

This church was constructed by a shipbuilder and designed like an upside-down boat.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of Navajo Nation.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

Built at the turn of the 20th century, using bricks made and fired from clay found on the property.

The first motion picture theater in southern Utah, reimagined and renovated as an arts hub.

Not your typical pet cemetery.

Opened in 1911, this small shop is the oldest ongoing establishment in St. George.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

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

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.