Artwork in honor of Gram Parsons decorates the main lobby at Joshua Tree Inn. The musician died at the hotel in the '70s, and it has become a popular place for fans to connect with him. (Dania Maxwell ...

Joshua Tree National Park, Calif. - It's a dry heat - a boulder-studded, wind-raked Mojave heat in which rock stars lie low, artists think big, Marines train, weird plants jut toward the sun like ...