Most ancient cultures have a site associated with the solstice or the equinox. From Stonehenge in England and Machu Picchu in Peru to Chichen Itza Mexico and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, they span the world.
The Parowan Gap in Southern Utah is the only major archeoastronomical site I’ve had the good fortune to visit, but I hope that changes some day.
We have one at our house, too, although it doesn’t actually celebrate the equinox or the solstice. The Robinson Sun Dagger shows up in early February around my mother-in-law‘s, and late father’s birthdays.
Our house faces North-Northeast, and this time of year is the first moment that the rising sun slips carefully through the sliding glass door and shows up on our fireplace mantle as a blaze mark- or sun dagger.
Probably the most famous sun dagger is the one on Fajada Butte in North western New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon. Ours is not as well known as Fajada, but we get to see it from the comfort of our living room and we love it because we know it means spring truly is coming.
Nature, every day. 
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