Slab City, which is located on 640 acres of public land, used to be a military complex and training facility, but it was abandoned after WWII and all that was left were some concrete slabs, which ...

Ten-year resident Rodney “Spyder” Wild at his California Ponderosa Airbnb in Slab City. “The people that come visit me — Iceland, Russia, Japan — stopped coming,” said Wild, 55.

Slab City is a 600-acre chunk of California desert on an abandoned WWII artillery training range, home to long time residents, newcomers and transients. There is no running water, no sewers, and ...

Slab City takes its name from the concrete slabs it sits on -- all that's left from a World War II training camp. Now it is home base for more and more people who can't afford to live anywhere else.

Kristin had never heard of Slab City before she stumbled across a cheap Airbnb listing for an RV in the Sonoran Desert while planning a 10-day road trip around California. Near Salvation Mountain ...

Vincent D’Onofrio’s creepy plastic nose is pretty much all I remember from the movie The Salton Sea, even more so than Val Kilmer’s scene chewing. That nose keeps popping into my head as my ...

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. ... We know for certain that Slab City is what’s ...

Black Dahlia, a 43-year-old Slab City resident, goes back to her home after doing yoga with her 2-year-old son. Image Simcha Guttenplan, 36, a docent at Salvation Mountain, with her dog Shalom ...