These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

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

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

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

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

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

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

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

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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