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

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.

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

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

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

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

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

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

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

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

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

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

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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

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