The Huell Howser segment was actually about the sculptures in Borrego Springs, they're not at the Salton Sea. You can go see the sculptures without any worries about about running over dead fish in the mud.
The Anthony Bourdain episode was amusing too. He went to the Ski Inn in Bombay Beach. I'm not sure I would eat there. Bourdain also stopped at the Shields date farm in Indio on that trip.
Yep, great episode by AB. The Sex Life of a Date, great marketing. Pretty cool job, drive around in a new X6 BMW, eat great food, and make sarcastic and witty dialogue along the way. Where do I apply for that job?
He also visited a missile silo in Arizona that is now a tour through museum, with an acutal Titan missle still stored there.
