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A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Mexican food and folk art.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

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

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

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

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

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

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

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

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