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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

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

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

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

A replica that won't float away.

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

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

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

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

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.