Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

Known as "The People's Park," this verdant oasis is home to elephants and villagers alike.

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

The walls of this sandstone outcropping are covered with 2,000-year-old artwork.

Take a step into the Cretaceous Period with these preserved dinosaur tracks.

An 18th-century hideout became a permanent and ongoing residence for one Lesotho tribe.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.