This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

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

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

Not your typical pet cemetery.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

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

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

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

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

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

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

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

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

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

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."

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

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

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

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