...obviously.
For a different take on dessert terrain how about Utah:

For new places there is the suitably alien :
Kliluk Lake:

Socrotra Island :

This crystal cave in Mexico:

The catacombs of Paris :

Change the buildings and these slate cliffs at Blaenau-Ffestiniog look other worldly.

Maybe the best way to bury the past is to charge at it.
