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The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

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.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

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

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

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

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

A replica that won't float away.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

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.

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