Deserts are probably one of the harshest environments out there. With very little water and often extreme temperatures, they certainly aren’t places many ordinary people want to explore. Or are they?
You might be surprised to hear this, but today more than one billion people (yes, “billion” with a b) live in and around deserts. The reasons for that are a few, the most important of them being the fact that humans are simply very adaptable. We have figured out ways to survive and even thrive in places where very few animals can. Dubai, Casablanca, Phoenix, and Las Vegas are all desert cities with thousands of people enjoying their everyday lives.
Still, that doesn’t make the uninhabited parts of deserts any less menacing. Especially with all the weird things people come across there—such as the ones on this list. Scroll down to see the oddities that people have captured while out in the desert.
#1 A Desert Rose In Yemen
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#2 Libyan Desert Glass
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#3 10,000-Year-Old Giraffe Engravings In The Sahara Desert
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#4 Swirling Patterns In Rock, Nevada Desert
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#5 Found This Little Guy Abandoned In The Desert
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#6 Rare Super Blooms In The Desert Of Joshua Tree, CA
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#7 Found A Wild Watermelon Plant In The Sahara Desert
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#8 Bobcat Sitting On Top Of 40-Foot-Tall Cactus In The Arizona Desert After Being Chased By A Mountain Lion
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#9 Walking Mesquite In The Sonoran Desert
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#10 An Old Man I Met In The Desert Of California
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#11 Found A Rabbit Abandoned In The Desert, Taped In A Cereal Box
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#12 Million-Years-Old Whale Fossil Found In The Sahara Desert
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#13 This Is Wonderstone. A Natural Rock Found In The Desert Of Utah
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#14 A Desert Oasis In Peru
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#15 The Odd Yareta Plant, Grows In Chile In One Of The Driest Deserts In The World
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#16 This Shrine To Dogs That Have Passed, Stuck Randomly In A Desert Wash
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#17 Ships Of The Desert
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#18 A Wet Road I Found In The Desert
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#19 Found “The Final Countdown” By Europe Cassette Tape In The Desert
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#20 Some Iron Filings That We Collected With A Magnet Out In The Mohave Desert
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#21 A Prada Store In The West Texas Desert That Is Never Open For Business
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#22 Abandoned Star Wars’ Set In The Tunisian Desert
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#23 Found This Skull While Out Riding My Quad In The Arizona Desert Today
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#24 Hotdog Stand In The Middle Of The Desert
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#25 Abandoned Train Tracks In California
It was a 11-mile hike in a super cold windy desert but there were amazing tunnels and bridges everywhere it was definitely worth it to see what happens over time.
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#26 A Train Sits Abandoned In The Arabian Desert Nearly 100 Years After Being Ambushed By T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence Of Arabia) And His Infamous Rebels
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#27 Stumbled Upon A Strange Doorway While Hiking In The High Desert Today
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#28 This Salt Mine Trench In The Mohave Desert
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#29 Button To Save People From Crossing The Desert From Mexico
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#30 I Did Not Just Find Al Capone’s Old Hideout In The Desert. I Just Skated Al Capone’s Old Pool? I️ Love Living In My Van
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#31 House Abandoned And Retaken By The Desert In California
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#32 Obelisk In The Desert, USA, UT
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#33 Desert Finds
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#34 Abandoned Cinema In The Egyptian Desert. The End Of The World Cinema
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#35 These Mud Cracks In The Mojave Desert Were Pretty Cool
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#36 Dozens Of People Have Left Frogs Near The Mojave Road In The Middle Of The Mojave Desert
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#37 Staircase In The Desert Outside Las Vegas
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#38 This Sunflower We Found In Our Desert Garden
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#39 An Outdoor Sculpture Of A Specter And A Bicycle In The Desert
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#40 A Village In The Middle Of A Desert. By Far, One Of The Coolest Places I’ve Ever Seen
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#41 An Old Abandoned Miner Town Graveyard, That Is Bigger Than The Actual Town. In The Middle Of The Atacama Desert
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#42 Chinese Lion Statue On The Side Of The Road In The Middle Of The Mojave Desert
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#43 Ancient Rock Art I Found In The Desert In Israel: Hunter And Ibex
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#44 Off-Road And Hiking To Utah Monolith
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#45 My Friend Traveled To Egypt And Found This Crazy Awesome-Looking Object In The Middle Of The Desert. Meteorite?
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#46 Found In The Nevada Desert
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#47 The Remains Of A Piano Found Miles Into The Middle Of The Desert
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#48 I Found A Notebook At A Burnt-Down House In The Desert
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#49 I Stumbled Upon This Tombstone Out In The Desert
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#50 Really Tall Mailbox In The Desert
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