The last hour of the 190-mile drive inland from L.A. to Slab City is a sensory-deprivation dash through frowning, scrubby nothingness where humans go only to escape or to hide, or because they've ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Peter Passalacqua spins around on a pole on the dance floor at his sprawling slab consisting of RVs, trailers and junk he ...

Living in Slab City under normal circumstances requires self-sufficiency and adaptability. The small squatter community in Southern California's Sonoran Desert has no running water, no electricity and ...

Living in Slab City under normal circumstances requires self-sufficiency and adaptability. The small squatter community in Southern California’s Sonoran Desert has no running water, no electricity and ...

You have to go to Slab City to meet a man named Quokka. Slab City is a squatter’s settlement near the Salton Sea out in the Imperial Valley desert, about 150 miles east of San Diego. The “sea” is a ...

Slab City, California, situated in the desert near the Salton Sea, is renowned for its unique status as a community that operates outside the conventional structures of government, utilities, and ...

SLAB CITY, Calif. — Penny Puckett came to Slab City and fell in love. After four years of “bumming around and hopping freight trains,” the 25-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., arrived at this ...

It takes awhile to get to the last free place in America. It's 140 miles east of San Diego where farmland turns to dusty towns, which turns to parched desert. An abandoned guard post covered in ...