The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

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

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

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

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

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

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

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