The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

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

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

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