STORY: Placed as a guardian of the temple, the giant was reconstructed by joining together the remains of several large statues, the same ones that were placed between the columns of the famous ...

Here's a timeline of key events at Giant Rock, a landmark north of Landers, Calif., that attracts seekers, partiers, conservationists and, according to some, extraterrestrials.

Giant Rock with an Oldsmobile pictured in the Los Angeles Times in May 1937. A caption reads, in part: “A wind sock, fluttering from a huge whitewashed rock overlooking the Mojave Desert near ...