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The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

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

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

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

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

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

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

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

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

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

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

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

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

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

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

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

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

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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

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