Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

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

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

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

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

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

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

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

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

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

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.

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.