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The horses.
Mesa, Arizona

Salt River Wild Horses

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.
Matmata underground house.
Matmatat-Al-Qadimal, Tunisia

Matmata Underground Houses

Made famous by "Star Wars," these troglodyte homes face an uncertain future.
Gastro Obscura

Taguella

A desert dweller’s delight, this bread gets baked in sand.
The oldest intact pigments ever found are about the color of a sunset.
deserts

Found: The First Color Made By a Living Thing

It's 1.1 billion years old, and it's bright pink.
Cara Giaimo July 10, 2018
The Paredones.
Nazca, Peru

The Paredones

These overlooked ruins give an intimate look at the Inca Empire's urban planning prowess.
The Gaberoun Oasis.
Libya

Gaberoun Oasis

A deserted Bedouin village lines the shores of this stunning desert oasis.
The Flaming Cliffs.
Bulgan, Mongolia

Flaming Cliffs

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.
A honeypot ant in Arizona.
Gastro Obscura

Honeypot Ants

These insects swell with sweet, golden nectar.
Dinosaur tracks!
El Paso, Texas

Sunland Park Dinosaur Tracks

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.
Iosepa welcome sign, Skull Valley, Utah.
Grantsville, Utah

Iosepa Ghost Town

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.
Gastro Obscura

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.
A typically cryptic, yet intense aphorism.
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.