This lesser-known city in California serves as the perfect base to explore some trails, go off-roading, and have outdoor ...

First, Route 66 was bypassed by Interstate 40, directing travelers away from the businesses that had popped up to serve them over the preceding decades, leaving Amboy to fade into a ghost town. In ...

There's a lot of emptiness in the Mojave Desert, but there's also a huge lot filled with abandoned Volkswagen and Audi cars.

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...