A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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.

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

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

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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

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

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

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

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

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

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

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

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.