4 discoveries
A hillside painted top to bottom in adobe and donated house paint — one man's 30-year folk-art love letter to the desert, near the Salton Sea.
Seven towers of fluorescent, stacked boulders rising 30+ feet from the Mojave — Ugo Rondinone's day-glo answer to the desert, 10 miles south of Las Vegas.
A vowel-less name invented to be 'the last word,' Zzyzx is a former quack health resort turned desert research station, hidden off a dead-end road in the Mojave.
Japan's largest sand dunes stretch for kilometers along the Sea of Japan — a pocket desert with camel rides, wind-carved ridges, and sandboarding, hiding a quiet sand museum nearby.
