Places Centravel Wants to Go

Local stories say that if you drink from this well, you will return to Olympia.

Along with used instruments, this pawn shop has pieces of music history on display.

Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp’s brother, is among those buried here.

A mass of iron named for the fire-dwelling mythological amphibian sits alongside the first west coast iron furnace.

A public library display of fossils from the ice age.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.

On the summer solstice each year, shadows align with a 14,000 square foot painting to reveal a secret message.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

This California museum is home to one of the largest collections related to the 'Treasure Island' author.

Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.