Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

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

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

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

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

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

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

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

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

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

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.