Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

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 flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

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

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

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

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?