Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

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

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

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

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

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

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

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

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

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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.

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

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

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

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

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

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.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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