New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Birdhouses, peacocks, animal sculptures, and a graveyard are all found along this eclectic nature trail.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

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

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

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

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

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

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

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

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

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

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

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

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

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

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