Some think the scraggly branches of the Joshua tree resemble something out of a Dr. Seuss book. Children's books aside, the Joshua tree is a yucca variety that's related to spiky agaves.

Migrating Mormons in the 1800s are said to have named the trees after the prophet Joshua, “seeing the limbs of the tree as outstretched in supplication, guiding the travelers westward ...

Some see Joshua Tree as just another desert landscape, but others swear it is a spiritual vortex with an energy unlike ...