This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

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

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.

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

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

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.