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, ...

Opal-mining is one of the world’s most harrowing pursuits, but potentially one of the most rewarding as well. To find opals, a modern treasure hunter must dig random holes in areas of known deposits, ...

Occasionally he strikes a big one and the years of toil seem worth it. But mainly he does it because he loves the lifestyle, the freedoms it brings, the people he meets and, most of all, the beauty of ...

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.