The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

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

"May the force be with you always."

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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