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

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

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

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

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.

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

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.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

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

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

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

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

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

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

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

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

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.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."