Carrie & Zach // From Salvation Mountain to Slab City

Carrie and Zach have reached the California Badlands, only to uncover a veritable treasure box of strange and unimaginable sights in Niland's fantastical, post-apocalyptic landscapes. 

All the way in the arid flats east of San Diego, they've explored everything from Salvation Mountain--a colorful gem in the monochromatic mountains, painted with bright biblical messages and imagery by Leonard Knight--to Slab City, an RV oasis filled with a welcoming coterie of drifters, artists and squatters.

Make sure to check out Carrie and Zach's accompanying video postcard. Now as fluorescent grasshoppers hopping by the side of the road (see the Best Western sign glowing in the background?), they seem to have taken a turn toward sci-fi....