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

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

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

For over a century, it has been a tradition to raise a flag at the top of this 450-foot sandstone pillar on the 4th of July.

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.