Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

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

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.

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

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

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.