About half way between Los Angeles and Las Vegas you'll come across an unusual exit sign directing you towards a rather oddly-spelled 'Zzyzx Road' (pronounced 'Zye-Zex'). The 4.5 mile-long, part paved and part dirt road leads you to an old health resort, now abandoned, called Zzyzx Springs.
Before Zzyzx became Zzyzx, it was called the Soda Springs. In 1944, Curtis Howe Springer purchased a mining claim on 12,800 acres of land surrounding the springs with the intention of building a Mineral Springs and Health Spa. He called the area Zzyzx, a name he had invented himself claiming it to be 'the last word in the English language.'
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