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

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

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

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

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

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

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

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

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

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

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

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.