Amboy, California sits quietly along historic Route 66, surrounded by open desert and volcanic landscape. Once a familiar ...

AMBOY, Calif. — Water is the key to the future of Roy’s Motel & Cafe, the lone survivor in a Route 66 town that, at its peak, boasted 200 residents, three gas stations, three motels, two cafes, a post ...

Joan and Kirk Bullard sit under the awning of Roy's. The gas station and store is the only operational business in Amboy, Calif., once a desert destination on Route 66. It's a Friday afternoon in ...

The countdown to launch creeps closer and there's still plenty for self-taught rocket scientist "Mad" Mike Hughes to do: Last-second modifications to his vessel. Pick up his flight suit. Leave enough ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A California man who planned to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a homemade scrap-metal rocket – in an effort to “prove” that Earth is flat – ...

Otherworldly -- that's one way to describe the Mojave Desert and its barren beauty. This unforgiving region is partly located in California and is on the iconic Route 66. There's not much here but the ...

When it rains in Amboy, or anywhere out in the desert, the sky has the annoying habit of dropping two inches of water in ten minutes. This, in conjunction with damage from traffic, destroys roadway ...

A photograph of an eerie ghost town is freaking out internet users and if you take a closer look you’ll see why. Reddit user srslyth o was exploring the California ghost town of Amboy when they came ...

That was according to his original plan, which had been to launch himself 1,800 feet high last Saturday in his homemade scrap-metal rocket over Amboy, California, an unincorporated community in the ...

If spring wildflowers were people, they’d be a carefree lot, free spirits who don’t set their alarm clocks and never check email. They’d toss their colorful heads with a mischievous ...

Residents and businesses left the town after a popular interstate highway opened up A MAN spent nearly half a million to bring a ghost town back to its former glory. The business district in Amboy, ...