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The shipwrecked Mary D. Hume and the Patterson Bridge of Highway 101.

Gold Beach, Oregon

The Wreck of the Mary D. Hume

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

The tyrannosaurus rex greets visitors.

Port Orford, Oregon

Prehistoric Gardens

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

Allensworth

Earlimart, California

Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

The most recognizable engine in the museum, Engine #5

Nevada City, California

Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum

"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.

Concrete building at the abandoned Murphy Ranch.

Los Angeles, California

Rustic Canyon's Murphy Ranch

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

20-mule team from viewing platform

Boron, California

Borax Visitor Center

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Morro Rock

Morro Bay, California

Morro Rock

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Cherokee, California...what's left of it.

Oroville, California

Cherokee

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

Endangered Bighorn Sheep In Ko-Pah

Jacumba, California

Endangered Bighorn Sheep In Ko-Pah

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

Perry

Palo Alto, California

The Donkeys of Barron Park

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

The "Slim Princess," Engine #9

Bishop, California

Laws Railroad Museum

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

Harmony Borax Works

Furnace Creek, California

Harmony Borax Works

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Abandoned sugar silos in 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)
Permanently Closed

Santa Maria, California

Betteravia Sugar Plant

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

Winehaven in its current state.

Richmond, California

Winehaven

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

The Paul Williams-designed Roberts' House

Malibu, California

The Paul Williams-designed Roberts' House

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

The banded, colorful cliffs

Nevada City, California

Malakoff Diggins

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

The rear of the lighthouse

Pacific Grove, California

Point Pinos Lighthouse

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Welcome to Rough and Ready!

Rough and Ready, California

Rough and Ready

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

The Statues of Ken Fox

Auburn, California

The Statues of Ken Fox

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

Artillery

South El Monte, California

American Military Museum

A military vehicle collection, showcasing how war transportation advanced from horse drawn artillery to self propelled cannons.

Pholisma sonorae aka "Sand Food"

Tecopa, California

Pholisma sonorae aka "Sand Food"

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

Mt. Umunhum Cube

Los Gatos, California

Mt. Umunhum Cube

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

Gibbon Conservation Center, 10/4/2015

Santa Clarita, California

Gibbon Conservation Center

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

Abandoned house on Año Nuevo Island

Pescadero, California

Año Nuevo Island

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

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