In a single loop around Southern California’s accidental lake, this route reveals surreal landmarks—Salvation Mountain, ...

Home to only 150 or so people most of the year, the Salton Sea in southern California —”created by the collision of geology and bad luck”—swells to 4,000 during the winter as people come to escape the ...

Were it not for an accident, Bombay Beach may have never existed at all. In 1905, a man-made canal overflowed, causing a flood that created the largest lake in the California Area– the Salton Sea.

Past Auction Richard Misrach American, born 1949 View from Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, 1985 Medium dye coupler photograph Size 66.04 x 83.82 cm. (26 x 33 in.) ...

Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then skirt Joshua Tree National Park to cruise ...