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 mural changes every few years.

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

This former wildlife sanctuary is being transformed into an art park.

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

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.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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

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

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

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

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

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

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.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.