Marfa, Texas
Wrong Store
This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.
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Marfa, Texas
The Sentinel
With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.
Marfa, Texas
Hotel Paisano
A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."
Ingram, Texas
Stonehenge II
A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.
Marfa, Texas
Marfa Lights
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.
Marathon, Texas
Eve's Garden B&B and Ecology Resource Center
An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.
San Diego, California
Balboa Park Moreton Bay Fig Tree
One of the largest trees of its kind in California.
San Diego, California
USS Recruit
Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.
San Diego, California
Pearl of the Pacific
An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.
San Diego, California
San Diego Museum of Us
An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.
San Diego, California
Spruce Street Suspension Bridge
An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Alamogordo Landfill
Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Culberson County, Texas
Guadalupe Peak
The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.
Lee Vining, California
Mono Lake
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Grass Valley, California
Home of Lola Montez
The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.
Norden, California
"Snowshoe" Thompson Memorial Statue
A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.
Truckee, California
Donner Pass Summit Tunnels
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
Oroville, California
Mother Orange Tree
The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.
Grass Valley, California
Empire Mine State Park
The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."
Grass Valley, California
Old St. Patrick's Cemetery
Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.
Grass Valley, California
Mount Saint Mary's Academy
The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.
Grass Valley, California
Grass Valley Museum
A rich history stashed behind an unassuming door in the heart of Gold Country.
Grass Valley, California
Swan Levine House
Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.
