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

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

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

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

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

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

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

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

"May the force be with you always."

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

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

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

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