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This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A long-abandoned provincial prison left to crumble in the frigid air of Ontario.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."