This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

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.

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

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

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

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.