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A novel has many elements - this is one of the things that makes it both challenging and fun. Dialog is an element. Exposition is an element. Character arcs, subtext, etc etc.

Description. I think what you are looking for is description. Or more precisely - Evocation.

I went to google to find a relevant passage showing the evoking of awe. I expected to find a passage from some well known work. Instead I found this which coincidentally chose Mark Baker's answer to a similar question.

There are portions of my story where I attempt to describe the sweep and grandeur of a place, and I do not claim to do it well, but several have remarked that those descriptions transport them.

Not dialogue.

Description that evokes the reader's memory of being in an awesome place.

Look at the Writing SE Q&A here.

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