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

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.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

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

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

A replica that won't float away.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

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

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

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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.

In the middle of one of South America's most historic walled cities lies a bar with an enormous collection of Soviet memorabilia.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

The religious shrine that Pablo Escobar's men would allegedly visit before completing a mission.

A mouldering Colombian bull ring stands as a reminder of the country's complicated relationship with a brutal sport.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.