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

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.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

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

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A replica that won't float away.

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

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

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 house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.