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

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

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

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

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

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

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

A replica that won't float away.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

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