The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

Thousands of miniature bronze sculptures have taken over this city square creating a unique art installation.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

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

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

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

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

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

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

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

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

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.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

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

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.