Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

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

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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

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

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

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