A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

This site was once the largest ski jump tower in the world.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

This store also houses a museum dedicated to the history of these small, historic community shops.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

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

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

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

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

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

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

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

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

A rich history stashed behind an unassuming door in the heart of Gold Country.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

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.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.