Racetrack Playa

The Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park is a fascinating place.  It's a 27 mile winding and washboarded road to the Playa, a dry, flat lakebed that has water only a few days a year.  The reward for the effort of getting there is the viewing of a strange geologic phenomenon not seen anywhere else on earth: Sailing Stones.

Although no one has witnessed it, these rocks really move.  It's tough to explain this, so check out this article for more information.

To give a sense of scale, the rocks are about basketball size.
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These last images are of the Grandstand, a large volcanic (igneous) outcropping rising dramatically from the flat lakebed:

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