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

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

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

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

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

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

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

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

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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.

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

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

A replica that won't float away.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.