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

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

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

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

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

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.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

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.

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

A replica that won't float away.

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

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

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

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

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.