Places Ancientproof Wants to Go

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

The home of Ireland's last leprechauns is officially protected by the European Union.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

Historic, 19th-century wagon wheel ruts cut into soft volcanic ash.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

A winding medieval path was used by mourners to carry their dead to the nearest church.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.