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.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

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

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

"May the force be with you always."

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

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

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

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

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

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

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

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

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

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

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

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

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

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.