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 ...

Reuters photographer Eric Thayer recently spent some time with the fringe community living off-the-grid in Slab City. The former military base located in southern California was closed after World War ...

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 ...

Just under a decade ago, Angie Harrell Bragg was working as a trauma nurse in California. Tired of the relentless “grind” of ...

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 ...

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 ...