The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

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

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

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

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

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

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

"May the force be with you always."

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

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

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

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

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

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

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.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

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.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.