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

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.

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

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

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

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

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

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

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

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.