This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

An ADA-accessible trail and deck offering stunning views of Colorado’s Mount of the Holy Cross.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

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

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

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

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.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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

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

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

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

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