Scattered around town are do-it-yourself mining operations, abandoned film props and a cafe that serves both waffles and opals. Pyramid-like mounds, a byproduct of opal mining, litter the landscape ...

Welcome to Coober Pedy, the town that lives underground. Originally a mining town, many of the residents of Australia's Coober Pedy live in dugouts to escape the heat. During the town's summer months, ...

Approximately 70 percent of the world's opals come from the mining town of Coober Pedy in South Australia, where half of its population lives underground. Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott/Minden ...

Coober Pedy is one of the least accessible towns in Australia – the place where the old American West meets Mars – which is probably why it gained a reputation as the place where outlaws went to hide.

Beneath the desert of South Australia, a photographer finds a community of opal miners with a "crazy and unusual life." Gabriele Gouellain, a German immigrant, waits in the kitchen for her husband to ...

In the middle of the Australian Outback, there's a town where chimneys rise from the sand and big red signs warn people of "unmarked holes." Welcome to Coober Pedy, the town that lives underground.

Coober Pedy is one of the least accessible towns in Australia – the place where the old American West meets Mars – which is probably why it gained a reputation as the place where outlaws went to hide.

Coober Pedy is a small town in the Outback of Southern Australia. Many of Coober Pedy's residents live underground to escape the region's immense heat. Homes, bars, a church, and more can be found ...