This legendary 1970 Land Art installation by Robert Smithson is a 1,500-foot-long spiral coil of black rocks jutting into the hypersaline waters of the Great Salt Lake. The remote and otherworldly site has become a pilgrimage destination for art lovers and desert adventurers seeking one of America's most striking earthworks.

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