In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

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

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

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

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

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

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

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

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

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

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.