Glen Canyon Dam

I don't know why it took me so long to do this, but I looked up the Glen Canyon Dam on Wikipedia. The canyon is spectacular. There's a huge (7,000-by-3,000-pixel) picture of the bend leading to the dam hosted on Wikipedia, and it looks exactly like I imagined: a mind-bendingly-majestic parting of ancient rock with an anemic, putrid-looking trickle of sludge seeping past the colossal (but, compared to the rock surrounding it, unimpressive) concrete face of the dam, surrounded by a vast expanse of sparsely-featured land covered by all these stupid-looking telephone wires.

Here's the Wikipedia entry on the dam itself; I thought it was pretty interesting. I wonder when the Colorado will flow through there again...