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 ...

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 ...

In the heart of the Mojave Desert, a white wooden dome rises from the landscape, isolated and enigmatic, resembling a relic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But in a good way. — -- “I think I want to get a sound bath while we’re on the West Coast,” I told my husband as we booked an Airbnb for our planned babymoon. “What’s that?” came his inevitable ...