This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

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

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

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

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

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.