In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

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

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

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

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

This 80.33 troy ounces of solid gold is believed to be the largest nugget from Oregon still in its original form.

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

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

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

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

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

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

A rich history stashed behind an unassuming door in the heart of Gold Country.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

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

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.