Re: The most sci-fi looking city or locale in the world?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lisa Morgendunst) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Name a place where the architecture is so far-out that you could use
> it as a sci-fi set.
> I think Lucas's use of actual locales in THX was brilliant. 
> 
> And, which natural terrain on Earth looks most extra-terrestial? I saw
> a documentary on the volcanos of Kilmanjaro where plants and the
> geological formations were truly out of this world.

some places in Dubai are so far-out 

http://213.42.73.43/imagelibrary/public/searchresult.asp?Mode=Property&Querystring=1
http://213.42.73.43/imagelibrary/public/main.asp

http://www.webshots.com/g/32/601-sh/12582.html

dunes always feel like otherwordly
http://www.worldsapart.org/images/Worlds%20Apart%20camp%20in%20empty%20quarter.jpg

and there's also the dead sea, where it's impossible to sink and the
landscape is bizarre
http://www.ccs.k12.in.us/chs/clubs/hebrew/images/dead%20sea2.jpg