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

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

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

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

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

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

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.

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

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.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

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

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.