This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

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

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

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

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

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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

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.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.