The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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.

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

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.

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

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

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