Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Built in 1859, this eagle-topped archway marks the entrance to Brigham Young’s property.

Next to Salt Lake City's Assembly Hall stands a tribute to some unlikely heroes of early Mormon settlers.

An unprepossessing storage reservoir in southern Utah has a checkered past.

This church was constructed by a shipbuilder and designed like an upside-down boat.

This pristine World War II airfield gives a comprehensive look at atomic development and aviation history.

In 1847, Brigham Young climbed this hill to survey the Salt Lake Valley and saw a fine place to build a city.

Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.

A late-19th century diversion canal built by hand crosses Bryce Canyon National Park and is still in use.

This mural changes every few years.

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

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.