This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

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

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

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.

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

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

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

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

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.