Other images feature the Chrysler Building partially obscured within the canyon, its iconic spire barely visible, and One Vanderbilt—a 1,401-foot skyscraper—nestled below the escarpment's rim.

These Eerie Images Show How Humans Reshaped the West Unlike Ansel Adams’ romantic and iconic images, these have an uneasy quietness. Photographs by David T. Hanson; Text by Mark Murrmann March ...