If you've ever taken a good long look at the Mercedes-Benz G-Class and wondered just how tough the leather-lined SUVs are compared to their military-grade ... took off across Australia's infamous ...

And that's Australia. My affection for the outback is, frankly, a mystery to me. Nearly everything about it is alien or alarming to my nature. It exceeds by a considerable margin my personal ...

The Outback fills some 70 percent of the massive island continent of Australia, roughly the size of the U.S. It’s scantly populated, except for the more than 150 species of venomous snakes.