If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

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

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

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

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

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

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

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

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

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

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

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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