![]() Water remains in some parts of the lake's footprint, including Utah's Great Salt Lake. The area is what's leftover from Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric body of water that filled after the Ice Age, thousands of years ago. In the American West - a region with no shortage of other-worldly landscapes - this crystalline expanse near the Utah-Nevada line is an awe-striking natural wonder. The water's color appears turquoise because it's been dyed by a mining company that channels brine to ponds where it evaporates and leaves behind valuable minerals. ![]() Truck drivers, selfie-stick wielding tourists and gamblers driving to the casinos of West Wendover, Nevada, are known to stop here to photograph the stark white landscape, along with canals of flowing water. ![]() The Bonneville Salt Flats sit just off of a highway in a state nowhere near the ocean, but in parts they glimmer as white as a Caribbean beach. ![]()
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