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In 1878, Two Guns became the site of a mass murder of Apaches by their enemies – the Navajo. In an attempt to hide out, and avoid detection, the Apaches crawled into a cave at Two Guns. Unfortunately, the Navajos took notice, and lit sagebrush fires at the cave’s exit, shooting any Apaches that attempted to escape. 42 other Apaches that were not shot were asphyxiated by smoke from the fire. They were then stripped of their valuables. The murder site became known as the “death cave.”

Bombay Beach is surely one of the most interesting towns I have ever visited. The town is situated on the Salton Sea, 4 miles west-southwest of Frink in Southern California’s Sonoran Desert. The entire area is full of oddly calming post-apocalyptic views and various interesting projects left behind by artists, utilizing vacant spaces for creation in numerous expressive ways.

Between the early 1970s and mid-1980s, business was booming for Lake Dolores as visitors flocked from all over to enjoy a vacation in the desert. The park offered numerous rides and attractions, including eight identical 150-foot sixty-degree-angle steel waterslides. To descend the slide, riders rode on small plastic “floaties” which skimmed 40 to 50 yards across the lagoon when they hit the water at the slide’s end.

The Interurban Bridge of Waterville, Ohio – a beautiful, historic multi-arch concrete bridge. The bridge was built in 1908 to join Lucas and Wood counties across the Maumee River. At the time of its construction, and for some time thereafter, the structure was the world’s largest earth-filled reinforced concrete bridge. During construction of the bridge, it was decided to rest