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

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

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

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

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

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

The largest drain hole in the world.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

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

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

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

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.