An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

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.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

Built in 1917, this building is home to the last working spring-loaded dance floor in Utah.

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

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

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

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

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

Up-close opportunities to see working birds of prey.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

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.

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.

Population: 1.

An annual festival full of illuminated replicas of iconic landmarks from around the world.