GALLERY 5: DESERT BEAUTY Although the American desert may seem like a place without beauty to many people, it is quite the opposite. Our deserts contain some of the most beautiful rocky and sandy landscapes you can find. If you go to the desert in the spring you will also find it full of wildflowers and blooming cacti.     Desert Shards Death Valley, Mesquite sand dunes   Lone Cresote Death Valley, Mesquite sand dunes   Silky Dunes Death Valley, Mesquite sand dunes   Death Valley Death Valley, Mesquite sand dunes   Tequila Sunrise Death Valley, Mesquite sand dunes   Geyser Fly Geyser   Rippled Dunes Dunes in Guadalupe National Park in Texas   Fossil Beds John Day Fossil Beds in Oregon   Joshua Tree Death Valley   Desert Bloom Organ Pipes National Monument   Desert Poppies Organ Pipes National Monument   Traveling Rock The Racetrack in Death Valley   Sleeping Turtles North Coyote Buttes   Zabriskie View Death Valley   Manly Beacon Death Valley   Oasis Zion National Park