Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, stretches across a roughly 600-mile (1,000 kilometers) tract of land wedged between the coastal Cordillera de la Costa mountain range and ...

Why it's incredible: The rock formation is split cleanly down the middle as if cut by a laser. The Al Naslaa Rock Formation is a landmark in the Saudi Arabian desert formed of two big blocks of ...

Al Naslaa is a rock formation in Saudi Arabia's northwestern desert consisting of two huge, symmetrical stone blocks that are separated by a mysterious gap and sit on small pedestals. When you ...

Most people think of deserts as sweltering expanses of sand, but not all deserts fit that scorching stereotype. Nestled in northern and northwestern China and southern Mongolia, the Gobi Desert is one ...