Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

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.

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

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

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

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

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

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

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.