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.

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

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

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

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

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

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

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

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

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

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

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.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

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