The desolate Scorhill Stone Circle in Dartmoor National Park is a special place for me.
From the gold and green grasslands of Cotopaxi National Park to the desolate, glacier-capped Chimborazo, Ecuador's tallest peak, there are plenty of dramatic moments.
Last week, on Holocaust Memorial Day, full page adverts featuring the desolate tracks to Auschwitz appeared in the national press.
In 1987 Congress designated Yucca Mountain, a desolate volcanic ridge in the Nevada desert, as a national disposal site, ruling out sites in Texas and Washington State.
His photographic pilgrimage culminates in this ethereal series of real-time creations painted against the backdrop of desolate landscapes, from Georgia's Jekyll Island to Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina.
The landscape along the highway was desolate — mile after mile with nothing but dusty olive orchards and national-guard posts.
I planned to end up in Death Valley National Park, itself a great draw, but I was more curious about this desolate ribbon of asphalt.
The streets were eerily desolate last Friday night in downtown Richmond, the East Bay city where unemployment hovers around twice the national average.
By the 1980s, technology companies had relocated to the area, but Lowell's downtown, which was designated a national historical park in the 1980s and still held all of its old buildings, was desolate.
SR 177 travels along the eastern portion of the Joshua Tree National Park; like the eastern 100 mile of SR 62, it passes through some of the most desolate areas of the Mojave Desert.
