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

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

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

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

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

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

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

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

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

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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

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

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

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

This outsider art paradise is filled with dinosaur sculptures crafted from recycled machinery.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

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

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

A quirky old tree covered in tokens, cans, and bottles of wishes.

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

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

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