A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

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

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.