The Maturango Museum serves as the cultural heart of Ridgecrest, showcasing the area’s natural history, Native American heritage, and military connections. Their petroglyph tours to nearby Little ...

The nearby Salton Sea presents one of California’s most unusual and complex environments – a massive inland saline lake created by an engineering accident in the early 1900s. Despite environmental ...

From the finest cocktail meccas to the beachiest beach bars you can visit, this is USA TODAY's 29 best bars in America in ...