Back when California's Salton Sea was really a sea , or at least a big lake after the last flooding i...  ...top of an inactive volcanic butte and among what Salton Sea historian Pat Laflin calls “an inferno of h...  ...g Mullet Island as “the headquarters of the...

(YouTube link) Ransom Riggs of mental_floss t...  ...ugh the history and current state of California's Salton Sea . Music by Michael Picton.