Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Giant Rock is accurately named. At seven stories tall, it is ...

From the archive: This story first published in The Desert Sun's Desert Magazine in October 2016. I’m not sure what to expect when I walk into the Integratron for a sound bath. A tuned set of ...

The Integratron was designed to rejuvenate human beings with the use of ‘electromagnetic oscillations’ - Getty In the middle of the Mojave Desert, where there is little apart from a few, long-slung ...

You're calling upon a place that boasts a boulder-bewitching beauty, the overhead marvels of the Milky Way, and a kind of middle-of-the-night silence that can make a person feel as though they've ...

If you set off one morning and drive into the desert, past swirling dust devils and Wile E. Coyote rock formations, and then you drive some more, all the way until the paved road ends, you might find ...

The situation of so many structures in Southern California feels haphazard: buildings plunked down here or there by whim or whimsy. But the Integratron really belongs in its place: an auspicious spot ...

MYSTERY WIRE — A strange building with an even stranger history continues to resonate with mystics, seekers, and run-of-the-mill curious folks. It’s called the Integratron, an oddly-shaped structure ...

Calling All Earthlings pokes around the fringes of a fascinating story, starring a miniature society of UFO cultists, New Agers and desert eccentrics orbiting around an all-powerful ...

I first visited the quirky desert town several years ago and took to the creative community. While brainstorming road trip ideas one weekend, I settled on heading back to Joshua Tree. I also decided ...

Reading Susannah Rosenblatt’s “E.T., There’s No Place Like Dome” [April 20] recalls an interview I had with George Van Tassel, “Le Grand Papa” of flying saucers, in the spring of 1970. Van Tassel each ...

Throughout the summer, NPR reporters and Day to Day contributors are seeing just how far they can go on $100 worth of gas. Jennifer Sharpe had something of an out-of-this world experience: Of all the ...