Fairview, Utah
Thistle Ghost Town
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
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Fairview, Utah
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
Hanksville, Utah
This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.
Spanish Fork, Utah
An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.
Fillmore, Utah
The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.
Brian Head, Utah
Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.
North Ogden, Utah
Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.
Payson, Utah
A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.
Moab, Utah
A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.
Lehi, Utah
The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.
San Juan County, Utah
An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Delta, Utah
A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.
Salt Lake City, Utah
This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.
Wendover, Utah
A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.
Oakley, Utah
What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?
Duchesne County, Utah
The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.
Herriman, Utah
Largest man-made excavation on earth!
Grantsville, Utah
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.
Green River, Utah
This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.
Moab, Utah
This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.
Hinckley, Utah
A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.
Genola, Utah
The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.
Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
Thompson, Utah
A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.