This bizarre sandstone structure is known as the ‘Alien Throne’.
It stands in the Valley of Dreams, on Navajo Nation land in the northwestern New Mexico badlands. The ‘Alien Throne’ is found just outside the Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area, which is home to multicolored badlands, sandstone hoodoos, petrified wood and dinosaur bones.
This towering structure is a hoodoo, which is a tall, thin spire of rock that sticks out from the bottom of a badland. Usually hoodoos are formed within sedimentary rock and volcanic rock formations.
Minerals deposited within different rock types cause hoodoos to have different colors throughout their height
