Travel Well in California with our ultimate guide to Joshua Tree! We spent four incredible days exploring Joshua Tree, Joshua ...

First constructed in 1984 by desert visionary Leonard Knight, Salvation Mountain is a 50-foot-tall, 150-foot-wide folk art monument that’s just east of the Salton Sea.A gateway to Slab City ...

Slab City — Leonard Knight, a Korean war veteran and itinerant auto mechanic, showed up here in 1984 with the ambition of launching a 200-foot-tall balloon that he’d spent 10 years sewing by hand.

Salvation Mountain, a hillside Christian monument in Slab City created by the late resident Leonard Knight. Retirees and snowbirds have migrated to this public land in Imperial County for decades ...

Salvation Mountain sits at the entrance of Slab City, an unincorporated community of concrete slabs left over from a World War II Marine base. It has no city officials or services and is often ...

A view of Slab City, an off-the-grid, unincorporated community in the desert near Salvation Mountain. Image Black Dahlia, a 43-year-old Slab City resident, goes back to her home after doing yoga ...

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 ...

Several scenes were filmed at Salvation Mountain; a Slab City resident gave Penn a handmade bong. In recent months, Knight, 80, suffered health problems and moved.