These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

The world's tallest slum.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

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

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

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

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

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

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

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

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.