Byron, California
Byron Hot Springs Hotel
A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.
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Byron, California
A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.
Sacramento, California
A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.
Sacramento, California
This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.
Sacramento, California
A fascinating and comprehensive look at the evolution of medical practice in the Sacramento Valley since the mid-1800s.
Soriano nel Cimino, Italy
Ancient, mysterious stone altars are hidden among wild woods in central Italy.
Veroli, Italy
A Roman calendar dating to the first century is tucked away in a small town alley.
Kaltbach, Switzerland
A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.
Oroville, California
The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.
Sacramento, California
The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.
San Bernardino County, California
The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.
Amboy, California
A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.
Province de Ouarzazate, Morocco
An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."
Nye County, Nevada
The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Mauritania
Initially meant to immortalize the valor of the colonizer, this monument is now a symbol of Mauritanian resistance.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Nye County, Nevada
A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.
Klamath Falls, Oregon
This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.