Places in this collection
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Entry № 028Coober Pedy
The opal capital of the world solved the desert sun by moving underground — homes, churches, hotels, and a golf course with no grass at all.
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Entry № 033Sossusvlei & Deadvlei
A forest that died six centuries ago and never fell — black trees on white clay beneath the rusted-red dunes of Earth's oldest desert.
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Entry № 047The Flaming Cliffs
In 1923 a team here found the first dinosaur eggs anyone recognised as such, and science blamed the wrong animal for stealing them for seventy years.
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Entry № 065Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre
A salt pan most of the time. When floodwater finally arrives from Queensland, pelicans appear in their tens of thousands, and nobody knows how they know.
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Entry № 079The Nazca Lines
Hundreds of huge lines and animal figures scratched into a Peruvian desert, still being found: in 2024 AI helped confirm 303 new ones.
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