Thomas Dambo's troll sculpture wears a crown with birdhouses on his head.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

The largest drain hole in the world.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

A unique museum where guests can rent and operate a locomotive.

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

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

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

Built to hold Gold Rush wealth, this building has withstood the test of time.

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.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

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.