From White Sands and the Great Sand Dunes to Bryce, Bisti, Bonneville, and Petrified Forest, these 10 U.S. landscapes feel almost extraterrestrial, shaped not by lava but by gypsum, salt, sandstone, ...

Mr Rietze, 45, hopes to turn his 25-year project, called "Alien Landscapes on Planet Earth", into a book. The engineer, from Eichenau, south Germany, said: "I love to be in bizarre landscapes and I ...

Amateur photographer Martin Rietze has travelled the globe from the Arctic to Ethiopia capturing some of the planet's more other-worldly terrains Credit: MARTIN RIETZE / BARCROFT MEDIA He hopes to ...

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It’s a place renowned for its stark beauty and otherworldly landscapes. Yet beneath the alien terrain of Anglesey’s Parys Mountain (Mynydd Parys) lies another world that’s every bit as strange and ...