Out near Blythe in the lower desert, the abandoned industrial settlement of Midland, California has been empty for nearly half a century. It was "deliberately burned to the ground in 1966 when the ...

Out in the middle of the Mojave Desert is the ghost town of Midland, a gypsum mining town abandoned and then burned down in the 60s, whose infamy may come from the use of the gypsum crystals ...