The earth is full of natural wonders like Mount Everest, the Great Barrier Reef, the Grand Canyon, and waterfalls like ...

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 ...

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 ...