A stunning architectural yet functional feat, towering over Oslo.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

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

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

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

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

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

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

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

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

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

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

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

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.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

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