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

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

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

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

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

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

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

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.