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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

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

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

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

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

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

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

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

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

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

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

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

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.