This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

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

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

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.

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

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

"May the force be with you always."

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

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