"Slab City: Dispatches from the Last Free Place" is a new book that explores a one-square-mile patch of desert in Imperial County, California, that once served as a military base. Seen here is a ...

SLAB CITY, Calif. – Outside Rodney Spyder Wild’s desert camp, there’s a new addition to fit the times: a small sign that reminds visitors to wear a mask. Above the sign, a plastic skeleton rides a ...

Slab City, an off-grid “squatter’s paradise” that has been the desert home to a shifting population for decades, may soon disappear. The town exists about 140 miles east of San Diego in the Sonoran ...

It’s known as the last free place in America – the city with no laws. Slab City, Calif., a desert town about 40 miles from the Mexico border, is where people who want to avoid modern society – or just ...

The last hour of the 190-mile drive inland from L.A. to Slab City is a sensory-deprivation dash through frowning, scrubby nothingness where humans go only to escape or to hide, or because they've ...

The dusty compound is cluttered with rusted school buses and wooden shacks. Cacti stud the grounds and Christmas lights drape dried tree stumps. When the wind blows over the nearby Salton Sea, wind ...

No more waiting around to live. Our solo road trip continues. You might recall we were visiting the falling-apart yet artsy Bombay Beach, a possible up-and-coming boom town, due to large underground ...