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

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

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

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

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

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

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

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

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

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

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

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