Inside one of the strangest desert attractions you will ever see: Salvation Mountain. (It was decided I’m beyond saving.) •• I will never get enough of quirky US roadside spots. This one has one of the strangest histories - look it up. To put it simply, a man named Leonard Knight had a personal spiritual awakening at the age of 35, then spent over a decade building a mountain/museum of adobe and straw in the middle of the inhospitable #California high desert. •• He died a few years ago, but he wanted his work to remain accessible to the public so his message could continue to be seen. So the brightly painted Salvation Mountain remains. . . . . .