Places maccasimmons Wants to Go

This is the spot where the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War may have started.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A wealth of seafaring history displayed on the California coast.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

The geographic center point of the Golden State.

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