This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

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

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

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

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

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