Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

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

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

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.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

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.

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

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.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.