A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

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

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

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

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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

A replica that won't float away.

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.

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

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

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

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

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