All those activities were indeed available. But a most interesting desert pastime was curiously not listed: making piles of rocks. Building with rocks, rearranging rocks and piling rocks were ...

Many Joshua Tree National Park visitors have discovered desert rocks that resemble everything from broken hearts to land and sea animals. Photo from National Park Service Visitors find more than ...

An unusual pattern of tiny rock tunnels, first found in Namibia's desert roughly 15 years ago, could be the work of an unknown life form – a mysterious microorganism unlike any other described ...

Giant Rock with an Oldsmobile pictured in the Los Angeles Times in May 1937. A caption reads, in part: "A wind sock, fluttering from a huge whitewashed rock overlooking the Mojave Desert near ...

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The 18-holer is located in the Utah desert. Fairways and greens are lined with black lava rock, with red mesas surrounding the layout and the snow-covered Rockies looming in the distance.

The Negev desert of southern Israel is renowned for its unique rock art. Since at least the third millennium BCE, the hunters, shepherds, and merchants who roamed the Negev have left thousands of ...

Seekers of all stripes have been coming to Giant Rock, in the Mojave Desert just north of Landers, for a very long time. “I ...