America's geological wonders don't need erupting volcanoes to create breathtaking spectacles that look straight out of a science fiction movie. From towering mushroom-shaped rocks to mysterious moving ...

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“You’re one ugly motherf***er!” Arnold Schwarzenegger’s immortal line in 1987’s Predator is the most succinct description ever put on screen to describe the high-tech extraterrestrial baddie that ...