Halite salt crystals make up the landscape at Devil’s Golf Course in California’s Death Valley.
The morning sun lights up the sky beyond the mountain peaks of Alaska’s Kuiu Island as seen from Chatham Strait, south of Juneau.
The tiny hamlet of Skagway, Alaska lies at the head of the Taiya Inlet in the Alaskan Panhandle.
A sweeping panorama of the desert landscape of Nevada’s Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
Evergreen pine trees rise from the snow-covered ground in the foothills of Nevada’s Mount Charleston.
Some of the namesake rocks of Red Rock Canyon rise into the blue sky of the Nevada desert.
Clouds wrap around a rocky pinnacle in the Spring Mountains outside of Las Vegas.
The salt flats at Death Valley National Park’s Badwater Basin—the lowest point in North America at 282 feet (86 meters) below sea level.