Bridgeport, California
Bodie State Historic Park
Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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.
Yosemite National Park, California
The Ahwahnee Hotel
The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.
Santa María del Tule, Mexico
El Árbol del Tule (The Tule Tree)
The stoutest tree in the world.
Imlay, Nevada
Thunder Mountain Monument
The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."
Fallon, Nevada
The Shoe Tree of Middlegate
A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.
Austin, Nevada
Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park
Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!
Fallon, Nevada
Middlegate Station
This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.
Inyo County, California
Scotty's Castle
An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.
Mammoth Lakes, California
Devils Postpile National Monument
Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.
Inisheer, Ireland
MV Plassy
A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.
