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Salton Sea

Salton City, USA

Salton Sea
Photo by Akos Kokai / CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

California's largest lake, an accidental inland sea formed in 1905 when Colorado River floodwaters breached an irrigation canal. The shrinking, hypersaline shoreline is dotted with abandoned mid-century resort ruins.

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