Deep within the Sonoran Desert near the Salton Sea and hours away from the bustling metropolitan areas of Southern California, awaits a notorious community known as Slab City. It's a place full of ...

But over the last 70 years Slab City has attracted artists, retirees and a wide range of outcasts who were looking for some freedom in the California desert. The “city” is made up primarily of ...

Some places feel like they're straight out of a movie, and Slab City is absolutely one of them. Tucked away in the California desert near the the Salton Sea, this off-grid, lawless town is home to ...

Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back ... Palm Springs to the north and the arty squalor of Slab City to the south, home to about 150 full-time residents ...

By Emma Grillo Photographs by Kitra Cahana Reporting from Slab City, Calif. In the summer, the desert surrounding the Salton Sea in California seems to glow from the glare of the unrelenting sun.

Salvation Mountain and Slab City — two legendary California monuments that have ... folk art monument that’s just east of the Salton Sea. A gateway to Slab City, which has been famously ...

Salton City, California — Damien Lopez, age 4, has symptoms that many people who live near Southern California's Salton Sea also have. "His cough gets very wheezy. I try to control him," his ...

After decades of failed attempts to preserve California's endlessly troubled 120-year-old Salton Sea, a myriad of new plans to save the salt-riddled lake are taking form. Scientists discovered a ...

The Salton Sea is California's largest lake ... with the exception of a trailer park artists’ colony in Bombay Beach and Slab City, a campsite community near the geothermal fields where ...

The coast of the Salton Sea is seen in Salton City, California, on December 16, 2021. – Hollywood’s jetset once crowded the shores of the Salton Sea, a then-idyllic southern California ...

Two swarms of earthquakes reaching up to 4.5 magnitude rattled Southern California south of the Salton Sea. Getty Images/iStockphoto Two swarms of earthquakes reaching up to 4.5 magnitude rattled ...