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

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

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

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

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

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.

This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.

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

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

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

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

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

A replica that won't float away.

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

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

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

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.