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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Van Tassel’s post-war life started off typically enough. In the years after WWII, he was working as a tool and dye maker at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, and living with his wife Eva and ...

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 ...

Not many buildings can claim to have been built under the instruction of aliens from Venus. The Integratron, however, is not your usual two-up, two-down. Located in the heart of California's Mojave ...

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 ...

I’m reclined on a beanbag, swaddled in a cocoon of two blankets. My eyes are closed, and I’m positioned dead center in a vast wooden room. A note erupts into a wall of sound and washes over me. For a ...

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 ...

The man enters the dome and offers a quick smile before he sits on the floor, surrounded by 19 crystal bowls of varying sizes. He slides a mallet around the lip of one of the largest bowls, which is ...

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 ...