Most people think living underground is for bunkers or poverty. But in Coober Pedy, South Australia, about 60 percent of the ...

LAS VEGAS — Case manager Bryon Johnson flashed a light into a dark tunnel beneath the glitz of the Las Vegas Strip on a recent fall afternoon. He stepped into an opening in a concrete ditch littered ...

When we think of communities, we imagine people living in cities, towns, or rural areas above ground. However, some societies have adapted to living underground, either by choice or out of necessity.

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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 ...

In the dry, desolate landscape of the Australian Outback 500 miles north of Adelaide stands Coober Pedy, a seemingly unremarkable town of 2,500 people. But all is not what it seems here. That is ...