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In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

This gallery is home to everything from antiques, to ancient tribal masks.

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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 gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

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

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

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

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 spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

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

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.