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Witchetty Grubs

In the Australian desert, the roots of the witchetty bush hold a savory treat.
Saltdale
Cantil, California

Saltdale

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.
Twentynine Palms, California

Samuelson's Rocks

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.
Blue Marble Bath wash.
Inyo County, California

Marble Bath

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.
Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Arizona, was architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school in the desert from 1937 until his death in 1959.
architecture

The Desert Architecture School Where Students Build Their Own Sleeping Quarters

At Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West in Arizona, dorms are DIY.
Kelly Catalfamo April 16, 2018
Al Wukair Scrapyard.
Qatar

Al Wukair Scrapyard

Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.
Al `Arish.
Qatar

Al `Arish

An abandoned fishing village in pre-oil Qatar.
Winterhaven, California

Valley of the Names

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.
The sand dunes.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania

Shifting Sand Dunes

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.
Raisin-drying houses.
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Chunches

In the Turpan desert, wind-trapping structures turn grapes into raisins.
Hell's Kitchen, erected at edge of Salton Sea.
deserts

The Eccentric Adventures of Captain Davis, Sea-Desert Dweller

He lived on Mullet Island in the Salton Sea, ran a desert dancehall called Hell’s Kitchen, and obsessively retraced the steps of the Donner Party.
Laura Dorwart March 8, 2018
Tuyoq.
Tulufan Shi, China

Tuyoq

Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.
Readymix logo on the Nullarbor Plain.
Caiguna, Australia

Giant Readymix Logo

Some of the world's largest letters are carved into the limestone bedrock of the Nullarbor Plain.
The Eduard Bohlen, buried within a sea of sand.
Namibia

Eduard Bohlen Shipwreck

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.
Former Post Office.
San Bernardino County, California

Kelso Ghost Town

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.
Kerman, Iran

Lut Desert (Dasht-e Lut)

The hottest, driest, and most scenic desert on Earth.
The Wonderland Ranch.
Twentynine Palms, California

Wonderland Ranch and Wall Street Mill

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.
Golden Valley, Arizona

Fish Bowl Spring/ Shaffer Springs

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.