Abandoned charcoal kilns sit in Wildrose Canyon in Death Valley National Monument.
Amid the eerie silence and the intense 50c heat of California's Death Valley roaming rocks appear to patrol the desert.
This was taken in Death Valley at a location named Badwater, a dry sea of salt below sea level.
The age of this newly found Death Valley bacteria may not even reflect the real limits of longevity on Earth.
After I left the canyon, I had a blistering drive across Death Valley, America's hottest spot, then turned north to my summer with Hillary.
One of the hottest areas, Death Valley, California, it's said the area's hottest temperature record a century ago at 134 degrees.
The ashes of Brando and Cox were not the only remains scattered in Death Valley by the Brando family this year.
Death Valley is part of the Mojave Desert. It lies mostly in the western state of California although part of it reaches into Nevada.
Then I read Karine's blog, with its poems about "The Road" — like many French travelers, she was inexplicably mesmerized by Route 66, and a place called Zabriskie Point in Death Valley.
In the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada, the land to the east is mostly desert brown and tan. This area is Death Valley National Park, which is part of the Mojave desert.
