If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

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

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

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

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

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

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

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

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

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

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

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

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.

"May the force be with you always."

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

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.