Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

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

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

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

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

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

If you are looking for a used Russian battery, Chinese Ham Radio or other electronic oddities this Flea Market is a good place to start.

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

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

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

"May the force be with you always."

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.