A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

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

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

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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

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

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

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

A replica that won't float away.

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.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

The only ski tunnel in North America provides easy access to amazing snow and beautiful views.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.