A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Built in 1859, this eagle-topped archway marks the entrance to Brigham Young’s property.

Next to Salt Lake City's Assembly Hall stands a tribute to some unlikely heroes of early Mormon settlers.

In 1847, Brigham Young climbed this hill to survey the Salt Lake Valley and saw a fine place to build a city.

This pristine World War II airfield gives a comprehensive look at atomic development and aviation history.

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

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

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.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

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

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

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

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

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.