Some days, depending on wind and temperature, the water reappears in shimmering puddles that reflect the sky like spilled mercury. Other days, the Jetty looks like a fossil left high and dry, its basalt boulders dusted in white, surrounded by a landscape that feels both fragile and fierce at once.

Rocks leave their ghostly trails across the dry, cracked earth is like seeing the desert’s secret dance unfold. How do they move?

And hidden just off the highway, tucked into the base of the Floating Island Mountains, lies one of Utah’s most remarkable archeological sites, Danger Cave and its neighbor, Jukebox Cave.