Junk Dada: Noah Purifoy’s Desert Sculpture
Metal, plywood, porcelain, paper, cotton and glass are twisted and stacked into sculptures spread across 10 acres of desert landscape.
A Rock In the Mojave Desert So Large Visitors From Venus Came to See it: Giant Rock, CA
Giant Rock, Landers, CA. Tens of thousands of people attended George Van Tassel’s annual Spacecraft Conventions held at Giant Rock (three miles north of the Integratron), the largest freestanding boulder in the world coming in at seven stories high and covering 5,800 square feet of ground. The spiritually powerful place was a sacred Native American site…
From Time Travel to Rejuvenation: Visiting the Mojave Desert’s Integratron
Integratron, Landers, CA. George Van Tassel (1910-1978) held respectable jobs as an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed Douglas Aircraft and as a test pilot for Hughes Aviation, but arguably his real life’s work was as an inventor and UFO advocate. Van Tassel was the engineer behind The Integratron, a spherical, all-wood dome originally intended as an…
Keeping up with the Miners: Dublin Gulch Caves
Dublin Gulch Caves, Shoshone, CA. Wooden doors lead into shadowy rooms that originally held stoves, beds and all the comforts of home. These cave residences were hand-dug by miners into the soft hills on the edge of the tiny town of Shoshone. Most of them are locked, but you can still peer through open windows…
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