In a desert full of mirages, Peggy Sue’s 50’s Diner stands as the real deal – a technicolor time capsule where the biscuits are fluffy, the gravy is perfect, and the American road trip dream lives on ...

Tulare Lake was drained by farmers more than a century ago, and it has reappeared only rarely when floods have reclaimed ...

Deep in California’s Mojave, two towns rose with the railroad and fell with the freeway. Bagdad and Siberia are long gone—but if you know where to look, their bones still speak. From abandoned rail ...

Welcome to Red Rock Canyon State Park in Cantil, California, where 27,000 acres of Mars-like terrain erupts from the Mojave ...

The Mojave Desert, which includes the Amargosa Basin, is already the hottest place in North America. Temperatures in Death Valley, where the river terminates, regularly top 125 degrees Fahrenheit.

Eager for a California road trip that’s different from the usual coastal routes? Discover why Highway 395 is bucket-list worthy.

I wrote of the Mojave Gold Rush and the discovery of the Golden Queen Mine that caused people from far an near to come to Mojave in hopes of finding such a bonanza as did George Holmes. The following ...

Wikimedia Commons/Niceley Calico Ghost Town in California In 1881, four prospectors struck silver in the Mojave Desert hills ...