Inside this library turned museum, the history of Modesto and Stanislaus County is on full display.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

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.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

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.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

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

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.