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

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

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

"May the force be with you always."

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

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

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

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

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

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

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

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.