Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Pay a visit to America's oldest yarn shop.

Built in 1917, this building is home to the last working spring-loaded dance floor in Utah.

The first motion picture theater in southern Utah, reimagined and renovated as an arts hub.

These 100-year-old tunnels in downtown Provo house artists, restaurants, and a few surprises.

This magnificent natural sandstone bridge is one of the largest in the world and is an iconic symbol for Lake Powell.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

The only ski tunnel in North America provides easy access to amazing snow and beautiful views.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

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

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

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

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

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