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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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