A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

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

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

Contains a wealth of information about the first exploration and later use of the Green and Colorado Rivers.

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

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

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

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

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

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

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

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

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

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

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

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.