The folk art monument in the desert near the Salton Sea grapples with extreme weather, social-media-fueled tourism and its own tattering beauty. By Emma Grillo Photographs by Kitra Cahana Reporting ...

So says Wizard as we sit at the entrance to East Jesus, an open-air art museum in Slab City. The discarded junk sculptures that compose East Jesus depict ghoulish elephants made of old tires, ...

Some places feel like they're straight out of a movie, and Slab City is absolutely one of them. Tucked away in the California desert near the the Salton Sea, this off-grid, lawless town is home to ...