@keithtrailstreasures: If you like WEIRD, you’re going to LOVE this! 😂🌵 Meet California’s largest lake, the Salton Sea. Weird to the power of TEN! Created by an engineering disaster in 1905, this massive desert lake became the center of a booming real estate and vacation resort scene. Then things went horribly wrong. Today, the Salton Sea is famous for its extreme salinity, pollution, abandoned resorts, and eerie ghost-town vibes. It’s one of the strangest places to explore in Southern California, with a history that’s almost impossible to believe! #SaltonSea #CaliforniaHistory #CaliforniaTravel #AbandonedPlaces #WeirdHistory

Jay Bizzy :

you mean Alamo sea from GTA 5

Samantha Jinxx :

Even more weird, there's an active volcano on the southern end, the Salton Buttes, with active mud volcanoes.

Radio Royalty :

The weirdest part you never mentioned. It used to be connected with the Gulf of Mexico. That’s why there was so much salt. It’s a dried up version of the Gulf of Mexico so when the freshwater mixed with that area, it turned into seawater. There’s in fact a ship near the Salton Sea, that was beached from hundreds of years ago that came in from the Gulf of Mexico.

Ronnie Santos :

You forgot the fact that they’re beginning to mine lithium out of there

DirtSyndicate :

Great dirt biking down there!

Jonathan :

And now it’s a billion dollar lake after they discovered lithium inside. There’s already 3 major corporations competing to extract it.

MaryLu Casey :

Thanks for breaking it down. I’ve always been fascinated. I live right by it.

evil apollo :

oh that's where i returned to at the age of 23

Klaws.by.Kenny :

I live about 15 fields from the salton sea. I’ve had horrible asthma and even got hospitalized for a week with pneumonia this year. The respiratory issues are real here.

Ig Iggs n Iggy :

It’s not toxic, farm pesticides particles sink to the floor. the lake is drying up releasing the PM 10(particulate matter 10 is the size smog pm is 2.5 so you can understand a size difference). There’s life on the lake and it’s one of the last places in California that migratory birds can use on their flight south. The fish die off is from the lake drying as well as the salt to water content rises. Stop saying it’s toxic.

briher_1 :

Isn’t it toxic?

Trip_zip :

But yet they want to regulate the tires I buy

CarrieAnn :

went there in its prime and I hated it 😬

cotedazur ⛵️ :

It smells so bad some days

The ONLY ONE :

Slab city overlooks the lake/sea , it’s on the eastern side .

Jesse Gill :

The ‘white sands’ you see driving by it are millions of tiny fish bones. Not kidding

Zol :

By the way thats gta 5 lake on sandy shores and desert lake is sandy shores

hanep_o1 :

I feel dizzy watching this ….

Calivro :

MAFosterArt :

It was a seasonal lake before it became permanent.

hilalove912 :

I love it but it’s true, it smells horrible. Great for photos tho, very post apocalyptic

Richie2k_ :

The mountains in La Quinta have a line where the water to used to reach back then

Richard Thompson :

I went in the winter to see it, but the odor was still nausea inducing.

Mr. Corona :

30 miles long?

arizonaexoticbulls :

Driving it by it now