Fairview, Utah
Thistle Ghost Town
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
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Fairview, Utah
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
Terra, Utah
Ancient volcanic activity made this into an exciting rockhounding site.
Hurricane, Utah
A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Next to Salt Lake City's Assembly Hall stands a tribute to some unlikely heroes of early Mormon settlers.
Leeds, Utah
A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.
Jensen, Utah
This maintained cabin is where Josie Morris, an occasional associate of Butch Cassidy, lived out the last 50 years of her life by herself.
Wendover, Utah
This pristine World War II airfield gives a comprehensive look at atomic development and aviation history.
Vernal, Utah
Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.
Wendover, Utah
Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.
Price, Utah
The natural history of Utah is on full display inside this museum.
St. George, Utah
Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.
Cedar City, Utah
Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.
Green River, Utah
Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.
Salt Lake City, Utah
This former wildlife sanctuary is being transformed into an art park.
Mexican Hat, Utah
This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.
Moab, Utah
This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.
Kanab, Utah
Not your typical pet cemetery.
Castle Dale, Utah
A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.
Jensen, Utah
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.
St. George, Utah
Opened in 1911, this small shop is the oldest ongoing establishment in St. George.
Corinne, Utah
This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.
Kanab, Utah
Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.
Frisco, Utah
Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.
Salt Lake City, Utah
A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.