Australia
Silverton
A ghost town where Mad Max was filmed — the Mundi Mundi lookout shows Earth's curvature.
The Mundi Mundi lookout shows an unbroken 180 degrees of flat earth — so flat that the horizon curves visibly at the edges, and the set of Mad Max 2 sits somewhere in the shimmer. Silverton has 50 residents, one pub, and a collection of art galleries in corrugated iron sheds.
Silverton in far western New South Wales, 25 kilometres from Broken Hill, is a former silver-mining town with a population of roughly 50. The surrounding plains served as locations for Mad Max 2, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and other films drawn to the landscape's cinematic emptiness. The Mundi Mundi lookout, five kilometres from town, provides a vista so flat and uninterrupted that viewers report seeing the curvature of the Earth at its edges — a claim that is visually compelling if scientifically debatable. Artists have been drawn to Silverton's light and isolation for decades, establishing galleries in corrugated iron sheds that sell outback-inspired paintings, sculpture, and photography.
Solo
A ghost town, a horizon that shows the Earth's curve, and the silence of a place that cinema made famous and reality kept empty.
Couple
The pub verandah, the galleries, and a sunset where the light turns Silverton's corrugated iron to gold — outback romance at its most elemental.
- Mad Max 2 was filmed on the flat plains surrounding this ghost town of 50 residents and one pub.
- The Mundi Mundi lookout shows an unbroken 180-degree view — the flat horizon curves visibly at the edges.
- Art galleries in corrugated iron sheds display outback-inspired work by painters drawn to the emptiness.
- The Silverton Hotel's verandah faces a dirt road that runs straight into heat shimmer.
Silverton Hotel — cold beer on a verandah overlooking the same red dust that Mel Gibson drove through.
Pack your own or drive the 25 minutes back to Broken Hill — Silverton's population is 50.
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