Today, the water has dried up, swimmers have disappeared, and most of what remains are empty cement pools and buildings decaying in the desert sun. Driving through California's Mojave Desert in ...

At the fourth, I pulled up on the handle and a huge spider tumbled out into my empty ... his own Mojave homestead, leaving Liz and me to take in the 100-mile views from the cabin’s front yard. After ...

I stopped in the Mojave Desert and wandered around a 251-acre abandoned water park. The former park's history was a roller coaster of success and failure, changing hands three times. Today, the ...