Trona pinnacles, in the Mohave desert, not far from the death valley. Hundreds of tufa (calcium carbonate) pinnacles rising from the bed a dry lake:

If that looks familiar, it maybe because many movies were shot on the site, including the latest planet of the Apes:

The place was really desert, no monkeys, nobody. It is true the road that leads to the pinnacles is a pretty long unpaved road that can be a little to rough at some places even with an SUV. There are actually a lot of dirt roads and Jeep trails around the Pinnacles, a good occasion to test my SUV.
I kind of scared myself twice though, the first time when I was very close to get stuck in the sand but I finally managed to exit in reverse and another time where I under-estimated the angle of a trail going on a pinnacle slope, I really thought I was going to rollover... Anyways I am still alive but I kind of regret now my SUV is not a four-wheel drive but only a two-wheel drive.

I added as usual a few pictures to the photo album and a 360° view of the pinnacles.