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, ...

Most of the time, when people refer to a place as "being underground", they're speaking figuratively. That isn't the case in Coober Pedy. For residents of this outback town, the only way to escape the ...

I receive a large amount of pitches and story ideas, and at least once a year a photographer will ask if we can assign them to document Coober Pedy, a remote mining outpost 800 km north of Adelaide in ...

Coober Pedy is one of Australia’s strangest and most famous outback towns, a place where much of daily life happens below the surface because the desert heat above ground can be punishing. Located in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a desert town like nowhere on Earth... in fact, it kind of resembles the surface of the moon. With a large percentage of its ...

It’s a desert town like nowhere on Earth... in fact, it kind of resembles the surface of the moon. With a large percentage of its inhabitants and attractions underground, Coober Pedy is one of ...

Previously a working opal mine, the hotel still holds plenty of its former glory as guests can walk through hallways and tunnels featuring seams of opals, hidden caves and other historical images of ...

Coober Pedy’s most distinctive underground motel – carved from a working opal mine – has hit the market for $2.5m, with a tantalising opportunity hidden below for whoever snaps it up. Previously a ...