Stand-in Odyssey

Word on the street; the best cut in movie history is the transition from the world of apes to the world of space in 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. I have not yet reached the cut, the reason is all the magnificent scenes of landscape. The movie is paused while I google nature. Don`t know where the movie is shot, but the desert in Arizona looks like a match. Arizona, here I come.