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

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

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

A grave dedicated to the pioneers who settled California.

As fallout from an irrigation project, a formerly cottonwood-lined stream is now a sandy, desolate, post-apocalyptic channel lined with weathered stumps and tumbleweeds.

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

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The smallest country in the world.

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

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.