Bethany Mantle spent her childhood living in a cave underground to escape the the scorching heat. Then she uncovered a whole ...

Your seat assignment may have a number, but the real VIP section is pressed against the glass. Here are the 11 Train Journeys ...

COOBER PEDY, Australia — From her front door, Sonya Crombie can see the sandstone hills where White men carved up the land in search of opal and then stayed, turning their mines into elaborate ...

Coober Pedy is one of the few towns in Australia where you can still buy a home for less than $100,000. But if you are prepared to pay a little bit more to live in the self-described opal capital ...

Known as the "Opal Capital of the World" Coober Pedy is a town and mining field in central South Australia. The 2,000 people that live here have an extraordinary way of life as beneath the surface ...

Coober Pedy opal miner Dan Measey at his Diggers Gully claim. Picture: Dean Martin “Most visitors love the UV light and looking for the opal. We also have snakes glow, the lizards glow ...