Places rochelleah1 Wants to Go

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

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

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

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

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

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

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

A campy fiberglass statue welcomes visitors to this small town in central California.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The geographic center point of the Golden State.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

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