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		</div><p>Days after the discovery and swift disappearance of two shining metal monoliths spotted half a world away from each other, another towering structure has popped up – this time at the pinnacle of a trail in Southern California.</p>
<p>Its straight sides and height appear similar to one discovered in the Utah desert and another that was found in Romania.</p>
<p>Like those structures, the origins of the California edifice are also mysterious.</p>
<p>It is at the top of a hill in Atascadero, about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, Keyt-TV reported Wednesday.</p>
<p>The tall, silver structure drew hikers to the area after photos were posted on social media.</p>
<p>A similar one spotted about two weeks ago in Utah’s otherworldly red-rock country became a beacon of fascination around the world as it evoked the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, and drew hundreds of people to the remote spot.</p>
<p>But it soon disappeared, as did a similar structure that appeared last week in Romania.</p>
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<p>Whitney Tassie, a curator of modern and contemporary art at the Utah Museum of Fine Art, said the monolith was fascinating in part because of its context in the landscape.</p>
<p>“That’s a big, big part of land art in general is this idea of an experience, of a journey,” she said.</p>
<p>The intense social media reaction to the monolith against the backdrop of a punishing pandemic, along with the quick destruction of the piece, has become a part of its story, she said.</p>
<p>“It’s good to think about our relationship with the earth, which is ultimately what these sorts of projects do,” Ms Tassie said.</p>
<p>“Man’s impact on the environment front and centre.”</p>
<p>Two extreme-sports athletes said this week that they were part of a group that tore down the monolith in Utah because they were worried about the damage the droves of visitors were causing to the relatively untouched spot.</p>
<p>Officials said the visitors flattened plants with their cars and left behind human waste.</p>
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