The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

Explore a wealth of fossils in one of the most prolific dig sites in North America.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

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

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

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

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.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

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

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

This innovative mill was built for a legendary gold mine that never came to be.

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

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

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

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

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

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