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A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

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.

A vibrant arts enclave in stunning red rock scenery.

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

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

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

This innovative mill was built for a legendary gold mine that never came to be.

This hiking trail is scattered with the remains of a failed attempt to provide water to farmers in Dry Fork Canyon.

Dedicated to an airmail pilot who never let go of his important payload.

An unprepossessing storage reservoir in southern Utah has a checkered past.

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

A fully functional, commercial, miniature art gallery.

Ancient volcanic activity made this into an exciting rockhounding site.

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.

This maintained cabin is where Josie Morris, an occasional associate of Butch Cassidy, lived out the last 50 years of her life by herself.

Built at the turn of the 20th century, using bricks made and fired from clay found on the property.