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 ...

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, ...

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 ...