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Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.

Opened in 1911, this small shop is the oldest ongoing establishment in St. George.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

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

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

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

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

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

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

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

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.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.