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A large-scale site-specific public art installation by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, located near Las Vegas, Nevada. It features seven towering stacks of vibrant, colorful boulders.

A piece by Robert Smithson completed in 1971, located in Emmen, the Netherlands. It consists of a 140-foot diameter circle part of which is cut into a body of water, with a spiral hill connected to the circle.

An example of land art by Michael Heizer from 1969, located in the Nevada desert. It consists of two large trenches cut into the eastern edge of the Mormon Mesa.

Not a contemporary art piece, but an ancient Native American effigy mound in Ohio, USA, which is thought to represent a serpent with an undulating shape over 1,300 feet in length.

Created by Robert Smithson in 1970, this earthwork sculpture consists of a 1,500-foot-long, 15-foot-wide counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

Made by Maya Lin in 2009, this earthwork is set on 11 acres within the Storm King Art Center in New York, consisting of rolling, cresting waves formed from the earth itself.

An environmental artwork by Finnish American artist Agnes Denes, unveiled in 1996 in Ylöjärvi, Finland. It's a man-made mountain planted with 11,000 trees by 11,000 people from around the world.

Created by artist Nancy Holt in 1976, this piece is situated in Utah's Great Basin Desert and consists of four large concrete tubes that are arranged to align with the setting and rising sun during the summer and winter solstices.

Created by Richard Long in 1967, this piece is a photograph of the trace left by the artist walking back and forth in a straight line in a grassy field.

An intervention by artist Agnes Denes in 1982, she planted a two-acre field of wheat in downtown Manhattan, just blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center.

Designed by Walter De Maria in 1977, this work is located in Western New Mexico and is composed of 400 stainless steel poles with pointed tips, arranged in a grid over an area of 1 mile x 1 kilometer.