This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

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

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

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

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.