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.

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

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

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

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

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

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

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A replica that won't float away.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.