Salt Lake City, Utah
Summum Pyramid
Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.
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Salt Lake City, Utah
Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.
Thompson, Utah
A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.
Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
Spanish Fork, Utah
Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.
Henrieville, Utah
This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.
Salt Lake City, Utah
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Monticello, Utah
This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.
Parowan, Utah
Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.
Syracuse, Utah
The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.
Rockville, Utah
Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.
Garfield County, Utah
Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Delta, Utah
Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.
Vernal, Utah
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
Green River, Utah
Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Carbon County, Utah
Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
Kanab, Utah
Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Oregon
Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.
Wallace, Idaho
This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.