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

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

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.

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

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.

A replica that won't float away.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

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

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

The only ski tunnel in North America provides easy access to amazing snow and beautiful views.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

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

"May the force be with you always."

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

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

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

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

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

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

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.