01 Dunes Meet Mountains
Carcross Desert
CARCROSS, YUKON
High in Canada’s Yukon is an otherworldly destination where mountains meet sand on the British Columbia border. Though too humid to be considered a true desert, the area’s vastly diverse landscape is courtesy of the last glacial period, which transported silt to the area.
02 A Nearby Galaxy
Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park
LOS ANGELES
A long list of film and television productions, includingfilms, have used these jagged peaks to depict out-of-this-world habitats. The angular rock formations are the result of rapid erosion as they pushed up from the Earth’s crust 25 million years ago.
