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.
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Gold Beach, Oregon
This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.
Port Orford, Oregon
A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.
Earlimart, California
A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.
Nevada City, California
"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.
Los Angeles, California
World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.
Boron, California
Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.
Morro Bay, California
A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.
Oroville, California
Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.
Jacumba, California
Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.
Palo Alto, California
The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.
Bishop, California
The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.
Furnace Creek, California
This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.
Santa Maria, California
Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.
Richmond, California
Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.
Malibu, California
A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.
Nevada City, California
The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.
Pacific Grove, California
The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.
Rough and Ready, California
The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.
Auburn, California
A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.
South El Monte, California
A military vehicle collection, showcasing how war transportation advanced from horse drawn artillery to self propelled cannons.
Tecopa, California
A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.
Los Gatos, California
An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.
Santa Clarita, California
This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.
Pescadero, California
Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.