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 ...

Leonard Knight, a Korean war veteran and itinerant auto mechanic, showed up here in 1984 with the ambition of launching a 200-foot-tall balloon that he’d spent 10 years sewing by hand. Emblazoned in ...

On a recent Sunday, a small group gathered at the base of Salvation Mountain in the Imperial Valley desert, two hours east of San Diego. A shade cloth stretched between four poles provided some ...

Known as Salvation Mountain, its long-time creator, Leonard Knight, died Monday at the age of 82. We’re joined now by Zack Godshall, a filmaker who spent time with Knight for a 2009 documentary called ...

Leonard Knight worked for more than 30 years to build Salvation Mountain, a 50×150-foot visionary art environment in the desert just east of the Salton Sea. Religious scholar Sara M. Patterson spent ...

Leonard Knight, the creator of Salvation Mountain, a famous roadside attraction near the Salton Sea featured in the movie "Into the Wild," died in his sleep Monday afternoon. Knight, who also made a ...

National Geographic photographer Aaron Huey has traveled the world for his job, but he found a book's worth of material in a place just 200 miles outside Los Angeles. National Geographic photographer ...

Leonard Knight has been building Salvation Mountain out of adobe, straw, and paint for almost 30 years. The colorful, three-story mountain with the words "God Is Love" on its crest sits in the ...