I visited Salvation Mountain not knowing a whole lot about it. I had seen pictures and so I knew it was a colorful mountain in the middle of the desert, with religious phrases written all over. I left realizing that it was, above all, an incredible work of art. Leonard Knight spent decades building this mountain in the middle of southern California. It was his calling in life to build one of the most unique monuments to God.
This "yellow brick road" leads you to the top. It then continues around the back of the mountain to the other areas you can explore. There are signs telling visitors to stick to the path and they are quite strictly enforced (I witnessed a couple people being yelled at for wandering off it), I suppose for safety reasons.