Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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

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

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.