Come for the records, stay for the retro pinball machines.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

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

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

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

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

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

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

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.

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

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

On the summer solstice each year, shadows align with a 14,000 square foot painting to reveal a secret message.