While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

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

A 250 million-year-old rock formation has earned a rather unique nickname.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

This 38-year old fish became a casualty of changing trends.

The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

A repository of Pasadena history.