A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

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

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

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

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

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

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

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

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

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.