https://youtu.be/z6AFVf7AYtk Badwater Basin - Death Valley National Park The lowest point in North America is a surreal landscape of vast salt flats. Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America at 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. The salt flats here cover nearly 200 square miles (518 square km), and are composed mostly of sodium chloride (table salt), along with calcite, gypsum, and borax...

https://youtu.be/2JK1_sIaIF8 Devils Golf Course Landscape, Inyo, California, "Only the devil could play golf here." An immense area of rock salt eroded by wind and rain into jagged spires. So incredibly serrated that "only the devil could play golf on such rough links." Listen carefully and you'll hear sounds like tiny pops and pings -- the sound is literally billions of tiny salt crystals burst..

https://youtu.be/2pC06fzuNq0 A spectacular array of colors adorn the hills of Artists Palette. Tucked behind an unassuming yellow landscape, the rainbow of Artists Palette is the highlight along the Artists Drive Scenic Loop. Here, visitors marvel at an array of colors (red, orange, yellow, blue, pink, and green), splashed across the hills. These colors are from volcanic deposits rich in compoun..

https://youtu.be/kL72dI8YC5U Many first time visitors to Death Valley are surprised it is not covered with a sea of sand. Less than one percent of the desert is covered with dunes, yet the shadowed ripples and stark, graceful curves define "desert" in our imaginations. For dunes to exist there must be a source of sand, prevailing winds to move the sand, and a place for the sand to collect. The e..