By the way, in light of your user name, I had to post this -- this was taken in November of 2014 in Kodachrome Basin State Park in Utah. This is a "sand spire," essentially a crystallized geyser -- the deposits in the geyser solidified, and then the surrounding rock eroded, leaving this spire. It is called (no kidding) the Fred Flintstone spire, because it supposedly looks like him. I am in the picture at the lower left corner of the spire, to give you some idea of the scale: