This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

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

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

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

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