It symbolizes resilience, artistic innovation, and a unique cultural rebirth, rising from its once-derelict structures and ...

In the 1950s and '60s, Bombay Beach in California ... "Salton Riviera," a "miracle in the desert." Hotels, yacht clubs, homes, and schools sprang up along the shores as the Salton Sea became a ...

For centuries, the Colorado River periodically emptied into a body of water known as Lake Cahuilla on the northern reaches of the Gulf of California. The Salton Sea was created there in 1905 when ...

The vast California lake relies on ... dust that is harmful to human health. As the sea has receded, it’s also left abandoned houses, shuttered resorts and landlocked marinas that, in the ...

Home to only 150 or so people most of the year, the Salton Sea in southern California —”created by the collision ... In between there are hot springs RV resorts, date palm groves, geothermal energy ...

California’s desert is littered with remnants of broken dreams — hidden ghost towns, abandoned mines and rusty remains of someone’s Big Idea. But nothing looms larger on an abandoned ...

A tiny, half-abandoned ... California desert seems like an unlikely hot spot for street theater, classical opera and large-scale public art. Yet Bombay Beach on the eastern shore of the Salton ...

SALTON SEA, Calif. — In a state boasting epic mountain ranges and stunning coastlines, the Salton Sea is not typically considered an outdoor-lover’s paradise. California’s largest inland ...