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

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

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

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

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

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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