In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

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

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

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

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 dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

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

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

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

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

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

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

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