Utah "Crystallized"

Scientists know that up until about 700 years ago, a huge area of Utah was covered in salt, including a very large salt lake. At that time, according to legends told by the Native Americans of the area, the "Glowing Gods" came and extracted all of the salt from the ground & the lake and used it to make the enormous sculptures that can now be found all over Utah, eastern Nevada and parts of southern Idaho.

The smallest sculpture, of a type of high desert ant, is 65 feet long and 40 feet tall. The largest of the pieces is that of a native woman carrying a baby. It is 500 feet tall. There are sculptures of everything from rattlesnakes to jackrabbits to various migratory birds. All told, there are over 600 sculptures, all done in incredible detail, then sealed in an indestructible plastic coating.

The state of Utah makes big bucks off of all the tourists that come to see these sculptures, as well as the folks who come to vacation at Lake Bonneville, one of the largest lakes in the world.

Note: The creatures who made the sculptures also made a winding pathway for water to drain from Lake Bonneville into the Colorado River down in Arizona, thus insuring that no great salt lake will ever form in Utah again.