In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

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

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

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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