Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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

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.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

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

A replica that won't float away.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

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

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

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

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

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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

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

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.