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The San Juan Mission Cemetery on the edge of Farmington, N.M.
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Agathla Peak near the south end of Comb Ridge in Arizona.
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A Virgin Mary statue in a cemetery near Bloomfield, N.M., that is nestled up against a natural gas processing plant.
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A pumpjack in the Aneth Oil Field on the Navajo Nation in Utah. The oil field has been producing, and creating tension, for more than 50 years.
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A natural spiral in the sandstone of Comb Ridge, near Bluff, Utah.
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The Ismay Trading Post in McElmo Canyon next to the border of Colorado and Utah.
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Shiprock, a massive volcanic formation in northern New Mexico.
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A sandstone formation juts out from Comb Ridge, a huge sandstone wave that stretches from the Abajo Mountains in Utah to Kayenta, Ariz.
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