Mad Genius Buys Volcano, Transforms It Into Naked-Eye Observatory http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Way out on the edge of the Painted Desert in Arizona, 70-year-old Californian artist James Turrell has spent the past three decades excavating a 389,000-year-old extinct volcano. Roden Crater, as it?s known, is Turrell?s magnum opus. Whenever it?s finally complete, this black and red cinder caldera will be a monumental naked-eye observatory to surpass any throughout history.



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