...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.