The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

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

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

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

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

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

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.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

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

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.

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.