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

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

The natural history of Utah is on full display inside this museum.

This prehistoric karst cave is situated near a working ranch and historic warm springs.

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

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

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.

Not your typical pet cemetery.

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

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 100-year-old tunnels in downtown Provo house artists, restaurants, and a few surprises.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

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

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

This magnificent natural sandstone bridge is one of the largest in the world and is an iconic symbol for Lake Powell.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

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

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.