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Desert View Watchtower

Grand Canyon Village, AZ

Mary Colter designed this 70-foot stone tower to resemble ancestral Southwestern architecture while functioning as a dramatic Grand Canyon overlook. Interior murals and the layered masonry make it one of the park's strangest constructed landmarks.

Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.

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Source: nps.gov/places/000/desert-view-watchtower.htm

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