{ Michael Heizer, Double Negative, 1970 | between them for a total length of 1500 feet. While other large-scale earthworks had previously been created, some by Heizer himself, this was the first of the physically monumental Land Art projects. }

{ Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1970 }

{ Wim Delvoye, Lusty Busty, 2000 | cibachrome print on aluminium }

{ Wim Delvoye, Lasagna, 2000 | cibachrome print on aluminium }

{ Wim Delvoye, Rude but cute, 2000 | cibachrome print on aluminium }

{ Hope Springs, Desert Hot Springs, CA }

{ Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field, 1977 | 400 polished stainless steel poles installed in a grid array measuring one mile by one kilometer, situated in a remote area of the high desert of southwestern New Mexico. }

{ Cadillac Ranch | As a tribute to America’s best automobile, a collective of artists called Ant Farm decided to place 10 Cadillacs, ranging from a 1949 Club Coupe to a 1963 Sedan, in a wheat field located west of Amarillo, Texas. In August 1997 Cadillac Ranch was moved 2 miles to west in order to escape from the expanding Amarillo city limits. }

{ Mount Rushmore | side view }

{ Mount Rushmore is a memorial to the birth, growth, preservation and development of the United States of America. Gutzon Borglum sculpted busts of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln high in the Black Hills to represent the first 150 years of American history. }

{ Supervillains deface Mount Rushmore, Superman II, 1980 }

{ The Dasht-e Kevir (satellite view, NASA), or valley of desert, is the largest desert in Iran. It is a primarily uninhabited wasteland, composed of mud and salt marshes covered with crusts of salt that protect the meager moisture from completely evaporating. }

{ Von Karman Vortices, satellite view | As air flows over and around objects in its path, spiraling eddies, known as Von Karman vortices, may form. The vortices in this image were created when prevailing winds sweeping east across the northern Pacific Ocean encountered Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. }

{ Mars Global Surveyor images, NASA | (left) Small heart-shaped mesa (279 yards / 255 meters) in the south polar region of Mars | (right) Hert-shaped pit (1.4 miles / 2.3 kilometers wide)

{ Maxim magazine cover, Las Vegas, Nevada }

{ Firefox Crop Circle project: How they did it }

{ Targets for aerial bombing, Groom Lake/Area 51, Nevada | Legacy of Radiation Illness Stirs Objection to Nevada Bomb Test }

{ Radioactive area, Nevada | Probably not a place you’d want to visit any time soon, since the USGS [U.S. Geological Survey] sketch says in big letters “RADIOACTIVE AREA.” }

{ Nagasaki, before/after bombing | Hiroshima, before/after }

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