BY: JESSICA BEUKER There is a fishing village on the island of Crete, Greece dotted with manmade caves carved into the sandstone cliff. The village is known as Matala and, in the 1960s and ’70s, it was a community for…
Residents of this underground town live invisible to the eyes of surface dwellers
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Desert temperatures that exceed 104 degrees Fahrenheit have left the surface inhospitable—which is why over half of the town’s 2,000 citizens live underground. Coober Pedy, a small town in South Australia, sits upon the edge of a…