An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

This solo operation offers the world's only whey wines in flavors such as chocolate-orange.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.