With the stroke of President Obama's pen, you now have new federal lands to explore. OK, they aren't new, they're ancient -- but they are newly protected.
One of the most interesting is Basin and Range National Monument in southeast Nevada. It has lunarlike landscapes and a massive secret sculpture with ties to Los Angeles.
Intrigued? Here are five things you should know about this spectacularly empty land.
1. It's big
The monument covers 704,000 acres of desert mountains and valleys, roughly double the size of the city of Los Angeles.