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

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

These giant cracks in the earth were created to extract a mineral found almost nowhere else on Earth

Secluded wading pool with small waterfall and lovely nature.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

Designed in 1887, this clock from the county office clock tower has been restored and is on full display.

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.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A vibrant arts enclave in stunning red rock scenery.

A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

A kitschy stop on the way to Zion National Park.

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

Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.

Nineteenth-century cabins and volunteer re-enactors offer a window into history.

One of the most intact and well-preserved skeletons of a mammoth in the world is displayed in a tiny Utah town.

The natural history of Utah is on full display inside this museum.

A fully functional, commercial, miniature art gallery.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.