The Salton Sea: Creative destruction in post-apocalyptic California
Photographs by Robert DeLeskie

Abandoned liquor store near Bombay Beach

Bombay Beach, pop 295.

Abandoned home in Bombay Beach

Interior of abandoned house

Ruined jetty at Balmy Beach

Landscape art made of fish skeletons, Bombay Beach

Bombay Beach

Salvation Mountain, near Niland

Shoe tree at Slab City

Slab City residence

Art Park in East Jesus

Slab City residence

Slab City Christian Club

Abandoned trailer home in Niland

Mecca Beach

Mecca Beach. The beach is made of pulverized fish bones.

Graffiti in Bombay Beach