California
1,161 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Black Gold, California Oil
- First Peoples, California Before the Missions
- Gold, Eighteen Forty-Nine and the Rush That Made a State
- Hollywood, The Dream Factory as California Industry
- Ranchos, Mexican California and the World It Made
- The Freeway and the Car, California's Concrete Geography
- The Iron Road, Chinese Labor and the Transcontinental Railroad
- The Mission System and Its Cost
- The Nation's Breadbasket, California Agriculture
- The San Andreas, Living on a Moving Earth
- Three Californias, Coast, Sierra, and Desert
- Water, The Audacity of California's Plumbing
Near Carmel
- Carmel Mission and Junipero Serra
- Carmel's Writer Colony: Where the Artists Ran the City
- Clint Eastwood and the Ice Cream Wars of Carmel
- Clint Eastwood, the Mayor of Carmel
- Kerouac's Breakdown at Bixby Canyon
- Saint, Colonizer, and the Wound That Has Not Closed
- The Camera Coast, Adams and Weston
- The Carmel Bach Festival
- The Fairy-Tale Cottages of Hugh Comstock
- The Filipino Workers and the Valley Behind the Cliffs
- The Ground Before the Mission: Rumsen Ohlone and Monterey Bay
- The Men Who Blasted Bixby Canyon
- The Seacoast of Bohemia
- The Town With No Addresses
Near Fresno
- Before the Railroad: The Yokuts and the Valley Floor
- Chinatown and the Railroad Workers Who Did Not Stay
- Forestiere's Long Bet on a Life That Did Not Come
- Forestiere's Underground Gardens: Forty Years Alone
- Fresno as Gateway: The Road to Yosemite and Kings Canyon
- Fresno Station, 1872: The Town the Railroad Built Overnight
- Fresno's Air: The Valley That Traps Everything
- Friant Dam and the River That Was Dried Up
- Japanese American Incarceration and the Fresno Assembly Center
- M. Theo Kearney and the Raisin King's Peculiar Estate
- Sun-Maid: Building a Brand Out of a Cooperative
- The Armenian Community of Fresno: Before Saroyan and After
- The Basque Hotels of Fresno: A Community in Plain Sight
- The Dust Bowl Okies and Fresno's FSA Camps
- The Hmong in Fresno: Refuge After the Secret War
- The Meux Home: Victorian Fresno at the Edge of the Fields
- The Most Productive Farm County in America
- The Raisin Industry: A Hundred and Fifty Years of Dried Grapes
- The Tower District: What a Neighborhood Saves
- William Saroyan's Fresno: Armenian California
Near Groveland
- Big Oak Flat and the Tree That Named a Town
- Building the Road to Yosemite
- Chinese Miners in the Tuolumne Foothills
- Columbia State Historic Park
- Don Pedro and the Managed River
- From Garrote to Groveland: A Town That Changed Its Name
- Jacksonville: The Town Under the Reservoir
- O'Shaughnessy and the Dam That Muir Called a Death
- Railtown Eighteen Ninety-Seven
- The Drowning of Hetch Hetchy
- The Foreign Miners' Tax
- The Groveland Hotel: Adobe in the Gold Rush
- The Iron Door Saloon and the Oldest Bar Claim
- The Miwok and the Oak Woodland World
- Timber and the Stanislaus: The Other Sierra Industry
- When the Sierra Started Burning Differently
- Women of the Rush
Near Healdsburg
- Alexander Valley and the Immigrant Wine Tradition
- Asti: California's Italian Swiss Wine Colony
- Cyrus Alexander and the Valley That Bears His Name
- Fitch Mountain and the Bend of the Russian River
- From Prune Town to Luxury Wine Destination
- Geyserville, California
- Guerneville: Lumber Town to Gay Summer Resort
- Harmon Heald, the Squatter Who Founded a Town
- Hops and the Kilns of Dry Creek Valley
- Korbel and the Russian River Sparkling Wine Tradition
- Korbel and the Sparkling Wine of the Russian River
- Rancho Sotoyome and Captain Henry Fitch
- The Buckle of the Prune Belt
- The Carnegie Library and the Healdsburg Museum
- The Italian Swiss Colony: A Socialist Dream in Alexander Valley
- The Railroad Arrives: Eighteen Seventy One
- The Settlers' League War of Eighteen Sixty Two
- The Southern Pomo and the Long Snake River
- Where Three Valleys Meet: The Healdsburg Plaza
- Windsor, California
Near Incline Village
Near Joshua Tree
- A Climbers' Mecca Carved from Granite
- Blood on the Desert Queen Ranch
- Gram Parsons and the Fire at Cap Rock
- Gram Parsons at Cap Rock
- Joshua Trees at the Climate Edge
- Keys Ranch: Forty Years Off the Grid
- Minerva Hoyt and the Monument She Saved
- Minerva Hoyt, Apostle of the Cactus
- Noah Purifoy's Desert of Found Things
- Pioneertown Was Built to Be Filmed
- Pioneertown, the Old West That Stayed
- The Desert Queen Mine's Bloody Ledgers
- The Lost Horse Mine and Johnny Lang
- The Marine Base and the Desert Town
- The Oasis of Mara and the People of the Palms
- The Tree That Named a Park
- The Wonderland of Rocks and Fifty Years of Climbing
- Where Two Deserts Meet
Near Julian
- Fred Coleman and the First Gold in San Diego County
- Gold, Apples, and a Name Chosen for Looks
- San Felipe Station: Where Four Trade Routes Crossed
- The Cedar Fire of Two Thousand Three
- The Julian Gold Rush Hotel, Built by a Black Couple After the Rush
- The Stonewall Mine, San Diego County's Richest Gold Producer
- Three World's Fairs, Three Blue Ribbons: Julian's Apple Kingdom
Near La Jolla
- Alonzo Horton's Two-Hundred-Sixty-Five-Dollar City
- Beth Sarim: The House Built for the Resurrected Dead
- Bing Crosby's Racetrack
- Cabrillo's Landing and the Contested First
- Camp Kearny: Where the Doughboys Trained
- Captain Bill Poole and San Diego's Long-Range Sportfishing Legacy
- Carlsbad: The Mineral Springs That Named a City After a Czech Spa
- Chicano Park: Murals on the Pylons That Displaced the Community
- Del Mar: Village by the Sea
- Del Mar: Where Turf Meets Surf
- Dream: A Tribute to Dr. King
- Encinitas: Five Villages, One City
- Flying Leatherneck: The Only Marine Aviation Museum
- JFK's Last California Speech
- Legoland California
- Liberty Station: A Hundred Thousand Sailors and a Redevelopment
- Los Peñasquitos: San Diego's Oldest Adobe
- MCAS Miramar: Top Gun Country
- Mission Bay: The Wetland That Became an Aquatic Park
- Mission San Diego de Alcalá: The First and the Bloodiest
- Mount Soledad and the Bishop's School: The Village Above and Below
- Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
- Pechanga Arena
- San Diego Air and Space Museum
- San Diego Stadium: From Jack Murphy to Qualcomm to Rubble
- Snapdragon Stadium and the Aztecs' New Era
- Solana Beach: The Colonel's Cove
- Spreckels Organ Pavilion
- The 1775 Burning: The Kumeyaay's Answer to the Mission
- The Bridge and the Community It Cut
- The Cross That Went to Court for Twenty-Five Years
- The Exposition That Gave San Diego Its Look
- The Hotel del Coronado: The Ghost Upstaging Monroe
- The Kumeyaay Before the Mission
- The La Jolla Playhouse: Movie Stars and Summer Stock
- The Lighthouse Too High for the Fog
- The Lion That Started a Zoo
- The Mormon Battalion's March to the Pacific
- The Portuguese Holy Spirit Festival
- The Salk Institute: A Monument Worthy of Picasso
- The Whaley House: A Gallows and Four Named Ghosts
- Torrey Pines: The Last Stand
- Torrey Pines: The Rarest Pine in North America
- Tunaville: The Portuguese Empire at Point Loma
- UC San Diego: A University Built on a Beach
- University of San Diego
- Wyatt Earp in the Stingaree
- Yogananda's Gold Lotus Domes
Near Los Olivos
- Ballard: The Valley's Oldest Town and the Little Red Schoolhouse
- Buellton: A Cattle Baron's Ranch and a Bowl of Pea Soup
- Gaviota Coast: The Undeveloped Shore That Almost Was Not
- La Purisima: The CCC, Adobe Bricks, and the Mission That Remembered Itself
- Los Olivos: The Olive Ranch, the Railroad, and the Flagpole
- Mattei's Tavern: Where the Road Met the Rail
- Mission Santa Ines and the Chumash Revolt of 1824
- Monjerio: The Locked Room in the Restored Mission
- Neverland: Michael Jackson's Ranch in the Hills
- Rancho del Cielo: Reagan's Western White House
- Reagan's Ranch in the Sky
- Santa Ynez: The College Ranch and the Hotel That Waited for a Train
- Sideways: The Movie That Made This Valley Famous
- Solvang: A Danish Village in the California Sun
- Solvang: The Danish Colony That Became a Theme Park of Itself
- The Californio Rancho Dispossession: How the Santa Ynez Valley Changed Hands
- The CCC and the Mission: A New Deal Reconstruction on Complicated Ground
- The Chumash: The Valley's First and Enduring People
- The Flower Capital: Lompoc and the Seed Industry Nobody Catalogs Anymore
- The Foxen Canyon Wine Trail and a Sea Captain's Anchor
- The Gaviota Ambush That Never Happened
- The Mission at the Center of the Revolt: Santa Inés and the Flogging That Started Everything
- The Santa Ynez Chumash: One Reservation, One Band, and an Unceded Territory
- The Santa Ynez Valley Wine Country and Its Invisible Workforce
- Wine Country and the Sideways Effect
Near Mammoth Lakes
- Convict Lake: A Name That Earns an Explanation
- Dave McCoy and the Making of Mammoth Mountain
- Dave McCoy's Rope Tow: The Water Man Who Built Mammoth
- Devils Postpile: Columns of Cooled Lava
- Devils Postpile: When the Geometry Is the Story
- Hot Creek: Beauty That Can Boil You
- June Lake Loop: The Detour That Earns Itself
- Long Valley Caldera: The Supervolcano Under Your Feet
- Mammoth City: A Gold Rush That Vanished in Three Years
- Mammoth Mountain Is Itself a Volcano
- Rainbow Falls: Where the River Catches the Sun
- The Columns That Nearly Became Rubble
- The June Lake Loop: Switzerland of California
- The Kutzadika'a: The People of the Brine Fly
- The Sixteen College Students vs. Los Angeles: Mono Lake Committee
- The Tree-Kill at Horseshoe Lake: Invisible Danger
- The Volcanic Valley: You Are Driving Through the Aftermath of a Supervolcano
Near Mariposa
- Agua Fría: California's First County Seat That Isn't There Anymore
- Chinese Miners and the Cost of the Gold Rush
- Frederick Law Olmsted at Bear Valley
- Fremont's Fort: The Explorer Who Staked a Claim in Mariposa
- Fremont's Mining Empire
- Hornitos: The Town the Expelled Miners Built
- Mariposa: The Butterfly County at the Edge of the Mother Lode
- The Ahwahnechee: Before the Valley Had a Tourist Season
- The California Grizzly: State Symbol, State Absence
- The Courthouse That Has Never Stopped Working
- The Fricot Nugget and the State Mineral Museum
- The Legend of Joaquín Murrieta and the Head in Mariposa
- The Mariposa Battalion
- The Mother Lode in Mariposa County
- The Road to the Wilderness Runs Through the Fields
Near Modesto
- Draggin' Tenth
- Estanislao's War
- George Lucas Left Modesto and Never Forgot It
- Patterson: The Apricot Capital Planned Like Paris
- Robert McHenry's Town House
- The Almond Economy
- The Arch at Nine and I
- The Canneries
- The City the Railroad Made and Renamed
- The Name Nobody Claimed
- The River People of the Laquisimas
- The State Theatre's Christmas Day
- The Wright Act and the Water That Changed Everything
- Two Brothers and the Pamphlets
Near Monterey
- California Landmark Number One: The Custom House and the Economy of Empire
- California's First Theater
- Cannery Row, Steinbeck, and Doc Ricketts
- Colton Hall and the Constitution of Eighteen Forty Nine
- Ed Ricketts Saw the Collapse Coming: Cannery Row's Real Story
- Fisherman's Wharf and the Sicilian Fleet
- Pacific Grove, the Butterfly Town
- Pacific Grove: The Dry Town That Stayed Dry for Eighty Years
- Sea Otters and the Kelp Forest
- The 1849 Constitution's Hidden Radicalism: Colton Hall
- The Aquarium on the Old Hovden Cannery
- The Burning of the Point Alones Chinese Village
- The Custom House and Sloat's Flag
- The First Printing Press and California's First Newspaper
- The Japanese American Fishermen of Fisherman's Wharf
- The Monarch Butterfly Ordinance: Pacific Grove's Five-Hundred-Dollar Miracle
- The Monterey Pop Festival of Nineteen Sixty Seven
- The Point Alones Burning: How California's First Fishing Industry Was Erased
- The Portuguese Whalers and the Shore at Their Feet
- The Robert Louis Stevenson House
- The Royal Presidio and the First Capital
- The Stone That Remembers: Royal Presidio Chapel and the Hands That Built It
Near Morro Bay
- A Navy Base and the Making of the Harbor
- A Sacred Rock of Falcon and Raven
- An Estuary of National Significance
- Cabrillo, Portola, and the Naming of El Morro
- Cal Poly SLO: Learn by Doing
- Cal Poly: Learning by Doing on a Dry Creek
- Cambria Pines: The Victorian Boom Coast
- Cayucos Pier: The Rancher's Private Tollgate
- Estero Bay and the Chumash Maritime World
- Franklin Riley and the Founding of Morro Bay
- Morro Bay State Park and the Heron Rookery
- Morro Rock, the Gibraltar of the Pacific
- Morro Rock: What You Take From a Sacred Place
- Nitt Witt Ridge: One Man's Argument With Waste
- The Cambria Chinese Camp: No Marker, No Name
- The Cuesta Grade Tunnel: The Hole That Connected a Coast
- The Embarcadero and a Fishing Town
- The Giant Chessboard
- The Nine Sisters, a Chain of Ancient Volcanoes
- The Return of the Sea Otter
- The Three Stacks: An Industrial Monument Nobody Wants to Lose
- Three Stacks and a Rock
Near Oakhurst
- Bass Lake: A Dam, a Reservoir, and a Century of Recreation
- Coarsegold: Named for What Was in the Ground
- Fresno Flats Historical Park: A Town's Memory in Wood
- Highway Forty One: The Original Road to Yosemite
- Oakhurst: The Town That Renamed Itself
- Raymond: The Railhead That Launched a Thousand Stages
- Sierra National Forest: Nearly One and a Half Million Acres
- The Chukchansi Yokuts: Twelve Thousand Years in the Foothills
- The Creek Fire of Twenty Twenty: When the Forest Burned
- The Lumber Empire Above Oakhurst
Near Palm Springs
- Butterfly Roofs: The Alexander Tract Houses
- Cabazon Dinosaurs: Built from Freeway Scraps
- Cactus Slim's Moorten Botanical Garden
- Cahuilla Bird Songs: A Map No Surveyor Could Read
- Frank Sinatra's Desert House
- Frey House Two, Built Around a Boulder
- Kaufmann House: Neutra's Desert Statement
- Nellie Coffman and the Desert Inn
- Ojo del Desierto: The O'Donnell House
- Palm Springs, LGBTQ Capital
- Sec-he: The Hot Spring and the Checkerboard
- Sinatra's Twin Palms and the Rat Pack
- Sonny Bono, Mayor and Festival Founder
- Sunnylands: The Camp David of the West
- Tahquitz Canyon and the Palm Oases
- Tahquitz Canyon: The Origin of the Cahuilla
- The Aerial Tramway up Mount San Jacinto
- The Bob Hope House and the Desert Classic
- The Cabazon Dinosaurs
- The Case That Made Every Native Casino Possible
- The Cathedral City Line: Who Built Palm Springs
- The Checkerboard Nation
- The Fifth Grand Slam: Tennis in the Desert
- The Kaufmann Desert House
- The Racquet Club and the Two-Hour Rule
- The Tramway: Ten Minutes from Desert to Alpine
- The Windmills of San Gorgonio Pass
Near Paso Robles
- Atascadero: The Utopian Colony That Became a City
- Drury James and His Outlaw Nephews, Frank and Jesse
- El Paso de Robles: The Pass of the Oaks and Its Hot Springs
- Firestone Walker: The Oak-Barrel Brewery
- Ignacy Paderewski, the Pianist Who Planted Vineyards
- Mission San Miguel Arcangel and the Reed Family Murders
- The 2003 San Simeon Earthquake and the Clock Tower
- The Almond City and the Birth of Pioneer Day
- The California Mid-State Fair
- The Estrella Adobe Church on the Grain Frontier
- The Railroad, the Town Site, and Downtown City Park
- The Salinan People of the Salinas River
- York Mountain and the Birth of Paso Robles Wine
Near Pismo Beach
- Ah Louis and the Tunnel Behind the Coast
- Allan Hancock: The Man Who Funded the Pacific Crossing and Trained Eight Thousand Pilots
- Bubblegum Alley: An Accidental Monument
- Bubblegum Alley: San Luis Obispo's Sticky Landmark
- Clam Capital of the World
- Dinosaur Caves Park
- Halcyon: The Utopia That Outlasted Everything
- Japanese Americans Removed: The Empty Yearbooks of Santa Maria
- John Price, the Railroad, and Tent City
- Oceano Dunes — Driving on the Beach
- Pismu — the Chumash Word for Tar
- San Luis Obispo's Octagon Barn
- Surfing the Pismo Pier Break
- The Buried Ten Commandments Set
- The Dunites and Moy Mell
- The Dunites: A Colony in the Sand
- The Egyptian City Under the Dunes
- The Guadalupe Dunes: Three Layers of Human Time
- The Japanese American Farmers of Guadalupe
- The Madonna Inn: One Man's Vision of Everything
- The Monarch Butterfly Grove
- The Pismo Beach Clam Festival
- The Pismo Beach Pier
- The Pismo Clam: A Town Named for What It Helped Destroy
- The Price Anniversary House
- The Tile Roof Was Resistance
- The Town That Was Dug Up
Near Ridgecrest
- China Lake and the Birth of the Sidewinder
- China Lake Petroglyphs: The World's Densest Rock Art Behind a Navy Fence
- From Crumville to Ridgecrest
- Pinyon, Joshua Trees, and the Desert Tortoise
- Searles Lake: Borax and the Twenty Mule Team
- The Coso Petroglyphs: North America's Greatest Rock Art
- The First People of Indian Wells Valley
- The Maturango Museum
- The Petroglyph Festival
- The Ridgecrest Earthquakes of 2019
- The Sidewinder and What It Cost to Invent It
- The Trona Pinnacles
- Trona Pinnacles: Mars on a Tuesday
Near Salinas
- Boronda Adobe, Salinas Valley
- Cesar Chavez in Salinas Jail: The Lettuce Boycott of Nineteen Seventy
- East of Eden: A City's Bible
- Elkhorn Slough: The Estuary That Has No Right to Exist
- Fermin Tobera at Murphy Ranch
- Fort Ord and the Town That Outlived the Army
- Marilyn Monroe, Artichoke Queen of Castroville
- Moss Landing: The Smokestacks at the Edge of the Slough
- Rocinante and the Nobel Prize
- September Nineteen Thirty-Six
- Spreckels and the Company Town
- Spreckels: The World's Largest Sugar Beet Factory and the Town It Built
- The Alisal: East Salinas
- The Boronda Adobe
- The Bracero Program and the Chualar Road
- The Bracero Program: The Valley That Grew on Contract Labor
- The California Rodeo Salinas
- The Filipino Labor Union and the Lettuce Strike That Changed Everything
- The Filipinos and the Fields
- The House on Central Avenue
- The Mutsun: The Ohlone Nation the Salinas Valley Forgot
- The Rodeo Grounds and the Assembly Center
- The Salad Bowl and the Refrigerated Railcar
- The Valley Between Two Ranges
Near San Francisco
- A Dome Built to Outdo Washington
- A Park That Was Once a City of Tents
- Autodesk: The Software That Replaced the Drafting Table
- Bootlegger's Steps: The Italian Who Ran Whiskey Up a Cliff
- Candlestick Park: Wind, Earthquakes, and the Last Beatles Concert
- CuriOdyssey, San Mateo
- Emeryville, California
- Foster City: Bay Mud and Ohlone Shores to a City Built from Scratch
- Frank's Place: The Bar That Could Not Be Raided
- Harvey Milk: The First Openly Gay Elected Official in California
- Heinold's First and Last Chance: The Bar That Financed a Literary Career
- Lake Merritt: The First Wildlife Refuge in the United States
- Land's End and the Ships That Didn't Make It
- Mario Savio's Shoes: The Moment a Student Changed a University
- Mission District Murals: Forty Years of Witness
- Mission San Rafael Arcángel
- Mountain View Cemetery: Frederick Law Olmsted's Oakland
- People's Park: The Vacant Lot That Became a Battleground
- Postcard Row: The Victorians the Bulldozers Missed
- San Francisco's Oldest Park Is Paved With Graveyards
- Summer of Love: The Diggers and the Scene That Ate Itself
- The 1946 Oakland General Strike: The Last General Strike in America
- The Address on Her Driver's License
- The AIDS Ward at San Francisco General: Where Medicine Changed
- The Bank the Artists Voted Best
- The Bolinas Sign War: A Town That Voted to Disappear
- The Bust That Made the First Issue of Rolling Stone
- The Co-op and Its Collapse: Berkeley's Consumer Democracy Experiment
- The Coffee Cup That Started a Riot
- The Cypress Structure: Forty-Two Deaths the Camera Missed
- The Emeryville Shellmound: Five Thousand Years Under a Mall
- The Fifty-Year Slide: How Devil's Slide Beat the Engineers
- The Free Breakfast Program: The Part of the Panthers That Fed Children
- The Garden Name That Disappeared for a Decade
- The Granite Lady That Isn't Granite
- The Greenhouse Nobody Meant to Build Here
- The Men Who Founded the Panthers in a North Oakland Office
- The Military's Gift: How the Navy Made the Castro
- The Oakland Hills Fire and the Question of Who Rebuilds
- The Ohlone Shellmound at Emeryville: Three Thousand Years for a Parking Lot
- The Paramount and the Fox: Oakland's Palace Row
- The People the City Was Built On
- The Quilt: One Name at a Time
- The Shipwreck Coast: Duxbury Reef and the Marin Graveyard
- The Sutro Baths: The World's Largest Pool Nobody Remembers
- The Third World Strike: How Ethnic Studies Was Invented
- Where the United Nations Was Born
Near Santa Barbara
- Carpinteria: Named for the Workshop That Was Already There
- Carpinteria: Where the Chumash Built Boats
- Carpinteria's Seal Rookery and the Tar That Saved Everything
- Casa del Herrero, Montecito
- Chumash Painted Cave and the Plank Canoe
- El Presidio Real, the Fort That Founded the City
- Isla Vista and the Burning of the Bank
- Mission Santa Barbara: The Queen Who Was Also a Prison
- Old Spanish Days Fiesta
- The Biltmore and the American Riviera
- The Earthquake That Built a City
- The Earthquake That Built Santa Barbara
- The Giant Moreton Bay Fig
- The Largest Revolt in Mission California
- The Last Fortress and the Hands That Built It
- The Montecito Debris Flow of 2018
- The Spanish Castle of Courts
- The Tomol: The Only Ocean-Going Plank Canoe in Pre-Contact North America
Near Santa Rosa
- Charles M. Schulz Museum: Snoopy's Home Base
- Charles Schulz and the Good Grief City
- Doña María and the Rancho That Became a City
- Hitchcock Comes to Town
- Luther Burbank, the Wizard of Santa Rosa
- Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Experiment Farm
- Railroad Square and the Italian Bricklayers
- Robert Ripley, Born Here, Believing Nothing
- Schulz at the Rink
- Sebastopol, the Gravenstein Town
- The Cartoonist Who Hated to Draw in Front of People
- The Charles Schulz Museum and Snoopy's Hometown
- The Church of One Tree
- The Earthquake of April Eighteen, Nineteen Oh Six
- The Man Who Left on a Freight Train with Nothing
- The Plant That Did Not Exist
- The Southern Pomo and the Santa Rosa Plain
- The Tubbs Fire, October Two Thousand Seventeen
Near Sonoma Sebastopol
- Buena Vista and the Count of Wine
- Jack London, Wolf House, and the Valley of the Moon
- Jack London's Beauty Ranch: The Contradictions of a Socialist Landowner
- Jack London's Unfinished House
- Lachryma Montis, General Vallejo's Home
- Mariano Vallejo: The Man Who Lost Everything Helping the Americans Win
- Mission San Francisco Solano, the Last Mission
- Mission San Francisco Solano: The Last Mission and the Secularization Fight
- Petaluma Adobe: The Working Ranch Behind the Mythology
- Petaluma: Egg Capital of the World
- Petaluma's Carnegie Library
- Sonoma Plaza and the Bear Flag Revolt
- Sonoma Plaza as the Living Center of Mexican California
- The Bear Flag Republic: Twenty-Two Days
- The Petaluma Adobe
- The Sonoma Barracks
- The Tomales Bay Dairies and the Land Beneath Them
- Wildfire and What Comes After: Two Thousand Seventeen to Two Thousand Twenty
Near St. Helena
- Beringer Brothers and the Rhine House
- Charles Krug and the Oldest Napa Winery
- Charles Krug: Napa's Oldest Winery
- Chinese Laborers and the Landscape They Created
- Greystone and the Culinary Institute of America
- Inglenook: From Finnish Sea Captain to Francis Ford Coppola
- Mount Saint Helena and Its Russian Name
- Old Faithful Geyser and the Geothermal Valley
- Phylloxera and Prohibition: When Napa Nearly Died
- Phylloxera: The Louse That Killed California Wine Twice
- Prohibition and the Sacramental Wine Loophole
- Robert Louis Stevenson and The Silverado Squatters
- Robert Mondavi's Mission: Making California Wine a Cultural Project
- Saint Helena: The Heart of the Napa Valley
- Sam Brannan and the Town He Accidentally Named
- Schramsberg: The Vineyard Nixon Made Famous
- The Bale Grist Mill
- The Family Feud That Made Modern Napa
- The Judgment of Paris
- The Judgment of Paris, Nineteen Seventy Six
- The Labor Behind the Labels: H-2A and the Contemporary Harvest
- The Napa Valley Wine Train
- The Pope Street Bridge
- The Wappo: First People of the Valley
- The Wappo: The Valley's Original Winemakers
Near Stockton
- Larry Itliong and the Asparagus Strikes
- Lathrop: Where the Transcontinental Railroad Finished
- Little Manila: Stockton's Filipino Quarter Before the War
- Lodi Zinfandel: The Oldest Vines in California
- Thanksgiving Day, Nineteen Oh Four
- The Deep-Water Channel Opens
- The Fox California Theatre, A Palace on Weber Avenue
- The Gateway to the Southern Mines
- The Haggin Museum, A Gold Rush Fortune in a Valley City
- The Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in American History
- The Port of Stockton: The Inland Sea Route
- The Sandwich Man Who Built an Empire
- The Stockton Assembly Center, Nineteen Forty-Two
- The Third-Largest Chinatown in California
- The Village on the Mound
- Tillie Lewis and the Tomato That Changed the Valley
- Tuleburg to Stockton, The First English Name in California
- University of the Pacific: California's First University
- Weber Point, Where the City Began
Near Tahoe City
- C.F. McGlashan and the Two Histories of Truckee
- Cut for the Comstock: How Tahoe Was Nearly Stripped Bare
- Da Ow A Ga: The Washoe and the Edge of the Lake
- Da ow a ga: The Washoe Lake
- Donner Lake: The Party, the Passes, and the Price of Ambition
- Donner Lake: The Winter Before and After
- Donner Pass: The Actual History Is Harder Than the Myth
- Emerald Bay and the Castle Called Vikingsholm
- Emerald Bay: The View and the Island
- Fanny Bridge: The Best Backsides on the Lake
- Keep Tahoe Blue: Measuring a Fading Clarity
- Lake Tahoe: The Great Blue Eye of the Sierra
- Mark Twain Sets Tahoe on Fire
- Mark Twain Sets the Mountain on Fire
- South Lake Tahoe: Where the State Line Runs Through the Casino
- Sugar Bowl: Walt Disney's Mountain and California's First Chairlift
- Tahoe Keys: The Marsh That Isn't There Anymore
- The 1960 Winter Olympics and the TV Deal That Changed Everything
- The Forlorn Hope
- The Gatekeeper's Cabin and the Washoe Baskets
- The Hellman Mansion: Elite Leisure After Extraction
- The June 1867 Strike: Chinese Workers Demand Equal Pay
- The Lake Tahoe Dam: The Only Water That Leaves
- The Logging That Almost Killed the Lake
- The Nineteen Sixty Winter Olympics and Walt Disney's Doves
- The Pioneer Monument and What It Does Not Say
- The Pioneer Monument's Measure
- The Renaming of Squaw Valley
- The Snow Sheds: Engineering a Railroad Through Winter
- The Steamer Tahoe: Queen of the Lake
- The Summit Tunnel's Unnamed Workers
- The Town That Expelled Its Builders
- The Truckee River's Journey: One Lake, One River, No Ocean
- The Watson Cabin: Tahoe City's Oldest Home
- Truckee: Timber, Railroad, and the Shadow of the Chinese Workers
- Vikingsholm: The Castle at the End of the Trail
Near Temecula
- Avocados and the Agriculture Behind the Wine
- Cleveland National Forest: San Diego Foothills, Border Patrol Country, and the Chaparral That Burns on Schedule
- Hot Air Balloons: The Valley at Sunrise
- Old Town Temecula: Victorian Boomtown on the Frontier
- Rancho Temecula: The Mexican Land Grant
- San Diego North: Temecula and the Wine Country Surprise
- Temecula: Where Ranchos, Rails, and Roots Converge
- The Butterfield Overland Mail Through Temecula
- The Eviction of Eighteen Seventy Five and Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona
- The Payómkawichum: People of the West
- The Pechanga Band Today: Sovereignty and Continuity
- The Temecula and Pauma Massacres of Eighteen Forty Six
- Wine Country: The Valley That Surprised California
Near Three Rivers
- Curt Siodmak: The Wolf Man's Author at the End of the Canyon
- Generals Highway: From Colony Road to Modern Gateway
- George Stewart's Editorial and the Birth of Sequoia National Park
- Hale Tharp and the Hollow Sequoia Cabin
- Moro Rock and the Geometry of Scale
- The Kaweah Colony: Utopia in the Sequoias
- The Kaweah River: Hydroelectric Pioneer and the Flood of Nineteen Fifty Five
- The Largest Living Thing on Earth
- The Soldiers Who Guarded the Parks Before the Parks Had Rangers
- The Wukchumni Yokuts and Marie Wilcox's Dictionary
- Three Rivers: Gateway at the Confluence
Near Vallejo
- Bank of Suisun: The Valley's First Bank
- Benicia Barracks: Army of the Pacific
- Benicia Seminary, the Seed of Mills College
- CC Sabathia: From Vallejo High to the Hall of Fame
- Chapter Nine: The Bankruptcy of Two Thousand Eight
- City Hall Apartment Building, Martinez
- Crooks Mansion: Benicia's Eastlake Survivor
- E-40: Building an Empire from the Hillside
- Fairfield: Clipper Captain, County Seat, Air Base
- Farragut's Island: The First Navy Yard on the Pacific
- Gold Medal on the Waterfront: The Sperry Flour Mill
- Hercules, California
- Mac Dre and the Hyphy Movement
- Seventeen Submarines: Mare Island at War
- Steamboats to San Francisco: The Ferry Years
- Suisun City: The West Wind on the Bay
- The Empress: One Hundred Fourteen Years of Vallejo on Stage
- The General's Bargain: Founding of a City
- The Most Diverse Small City in America
- The Navy Leaves: Mare Island's Closure and What It Cost
- The Strait Before the City: Patwin People at Carquinez
- What Was Here Before: Hercules
Near Wawona
- Camp 4 and the Birth of a Climbing Culture
- Chilnualna Falls: The Hotel's Destination Hike
- February Light and the Fall That Glows
- Forty-Seven Days on the Nose
- Galen Clark and the Fifty-Three Extra Years
- Grant, Garfield, and Roosevelt: Presidents at the Gateway
- Lincoln's First Environmental Law
- Pioneer Yosemite History Center: A Village Reassembled
- The Cables and the Democracy of Altitude
- The Camera as Petition
- The Covered Bridge at Wawona
- The Grizzly Giant: Two Thousand Seven Hundred Years in One Tree
- The Last Eviction
- The Manufactured Fall and the Real One
- The Mariposa Battalion: First Outsiders Into Yosemite
- The Militia That Called It Discovery
- The Miwok of Wawona: A Thousand Years Before the Hotel
- The Names the Maps Replaced
- The Sugar Pine Railroad: Saving the Shay Engine
- The Trees That Needed Fireproof Blankets
- The View That Should Not Exist
- The Wawona Tunnel Tree: Fame, a Tunnel, and a Fall
- Thomas Hill's Studio: Art at the Gateway
- Three Hours and Fifty-Six Minutes
- Wawona and the Stagecoach Era
- Wawona: The Victorian Resort at the Edge of Wilderness
- What Muir Got Right and What He Got Wrong
Near Zzyzx
- Baker, California
- Fort Soda: An Outpost at the Springs
- From Health Spa to Field Station
- Lake Tuendae and the Last Native Fish
- Mining Soda from a Dry Lake
- Soda Lake: A Vanished Inland Sea
- That Strange Word on the Freeway Sign
- The Castle Built by Skid Row Hands
- The King of Quacks
- The Mojave Road: An Ancient Trade Trail
- The Radio Preacher and His Tonics
- Thirty-Six Hours to Leave
- World's Tallest Thermometer, Baker, California
- Zzyzx: The Last Word in the Desert
Along the way
- Abalone's Collapse: When a Ceremonial Food Disappeared
- Abbot Kinney's Venice: A Fantasy Built on a Salt Marsh
- Acton Presbyterian Church: Congregation of the Chaparral
- Adamson House: The Taj Mahal of Tile
- Agua Mansa
- Alabama Hills: Four Hundred Films, One Valley, Two Histories
- Allensworth: The Town the Railroad Killed with a Pipe
- Alturas and Modoc County: The End of the State
- Anderson: The Railroad Man's Town
- Angel Stadium: The Singing Cowboy's Team
- Angeles National Forest: Crystal Lake and What the Mountain Roads Opened
- Angeles National Forest: LA's Lung, the San Gabriel Mountains, and the Fires That Will Come Back
- Angels Flight: The World's Shortest Railway
- Armistice Oak: Where California's Mexican War Ended
- Auburn: Where a French Cooper Found Gold in May
- Auto Club Speedway: Fontana's Second Try at Racing Glory
- Auto Club Speedway: The Two-Mile Track That NASCAR Demolished
- Awaswas: The Language the Mission System Almost Finished
- Badwater Basin: The Lowest Place in North America
- Bakersfield's Air: The Valley's Invisible Geography
- Banning: Named for the Stagecoach King
- Barbara Worth Hotel: The Heart of Imperial Valley
- Barstow Harvey House, Casa del Desierto
- Barstow Harvey House: Casa del Desierto
- Barstow to Needles: The California Mojave
- Barstow: Desert Junction of the Mojave
- Bear Valley Dam: Built for Oranges, Used for Skiing
- Beaumont: San Gorgonio Pass Gateway
- Benbow, California
- Beverly Hills: Tongva Village to Lima Bean Field to the World's Most Famous Zip Code
- Biola University: The Bible Institute That Became a Research University
- Bird and Dinkelspiel Store: Anchor of Birds Landing
- Black Bart, PO Eight
- Bloomer's Cut: Pick and Shovel Through the Sierra
- Blythe: Desert Oasis, Giant Figures, Patton's Proving Ground
- Bodie: The Town That Walked Out and Left Everything
- Bodie's Chinatown: The Workers the State Park Doesn't Feature
- Bombay Beach: The Resort That Became a Ruin That Became an Art Fair
- Boyle Heights: The Integrated Neighborhood the Freeways Ended
- Bruce's Beach: A Century of Wrong and a Week of Reckoning
- Buck Owens and the Crystal Palace: Country Music's Working-Class Rebellion
- Buck Owens, KUZZ, and the Radio That Built the Sound
- Buena Park, California
- Bumpass Hell: The Guide Who Named It With His Own Leg
- Burbank: The Media Capital of the World
- Buttonwillow: Named for a Sacred Tree
- Cajon Pass: The Choke Point Between Two Worlds
- Cajon Pass: The Trains That Never Stop
- Cal Poly Humboldt: The Redwood Coast University
- Cal Poly Pomona
- Calico Early Man Site
- Calico: The Ghost Town as Product Test
- Calpella, California
- Caltech and the Rocket Gang: Science at the Edge
- Camp Grant and the Bald Hills War
- Camp Pendleton and the City That Arrived in 1975
- Camp Pilot Knob: Patton's Desert War School
- Capitol Records: The Tower That Blinks Hollywood in Morse
- Capitola: The Oldest Resort on the Pacific Coast
- Captain Jack's Stronghold: Fifty-Three Against Six Hundred
- Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard
- Carrots, Cotton, and the Agricultural Empire of Kern County
- Casa del Desierto: The Harvey House That Saved the Mojave Crossing
- Castle Air Museum: The Cold War Is Still Sitting on the Runway
- Castle Crags: One Hundred Sixty Million Years in the Making
- Castle Crags: Rock Older Than the Cascades
- Cerritos, California
- Chambless: One Man's Homestead, One Interstate, One Year
- Chavez Ravine: The Eviction That Made Dodger Stadium
- Chimney Rock, January Eighteen Sixty-Seven
- Chiriaco Summit: Where Patton's Army Trained
- Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier (With Two Broken Ribs)
- Claremont McKenna College
- Coachella: A Misspelled Shell
- Coachella: The Desert Becomes a City for a Weekend
- Coast Miwok Federal Recognition: The Forty-Year Restoration
- Coca-Cola Building, Los Angeles
- Colonel Baker's Swamp and the City That Grew From It
- Confidence Hall: Placerville's Gold Rush Firehouse
- Corning: California's Olive City
- Cottonwood: A Town Split Between Two Counties
- Cousin Jacks, Ligurian Vintners, and Yugoslav Miners
- Crocker Art Museum: The Oldest West of the Mississippi
- Daggett, California
- Daggett: Where the Borax Came Down from the Desert
- Davis: The Bicycle Capital of America
- Death Valley's Road-Trip Film Cameo Tradition
- Delano, 1965: The Strike Larry Itliong Started
- Devil's Golf Course: Salt Crystals That Sound Like Breaking Glass
- Dixon: The Town Named by Mistake
- Dodger Stadium: Chavez Ravine and the Price of Baseball
- Dolores Huerta: The Co-Founder Who Got the Footnote
- Downey, California
- Duarte's Twelve Dollars in Gold
- Dunsmuir: Named for a Fountain
- Dust Bowl Kern County: The Harvest Gypsies Steinbeck Wrote About
- Dutch Flat: Gold, Hydraulics, and the Railroad
- El Dorado National Forest: Carson Pass and the Mormon Corridor
- El Monte
- Esalen Before Esalen: Hot Springs and the Esselen Ceremonial Site
- Esalen's Encounter Groups: When the Cliffs Were a Laboratory
- Essex and the Alphabet Towns: How a Railroad Named a Desert
- Federal Telegraph: Where Radio Was Born in the Valley
- Feraud's Store: Ventura's French Merchant
- Figueroa Street Tunnels
- Filipino Labor and the Strawberry Fields Behind PCH
- First High-Altitude Aeroplane Flights
- Fontana
- Forest Lawn: The Cemetery That Rejected Mourning
- Fort Tejon and the Camel Corps Experiment
- Fort Tejon: Camel Corps and the Biggest Quake California Ever Felt
- Fossil Falls and the Vanished River
- Frank Miller's Fever Dream
- Frank Zappa's Cucamonga Studio
- Furnace Creek and the Springs That Made Everything Possible
- Gateway to Death Valley and the Ghosts of Ballarat
- Glen Helen: Mormon Pioneers at the Cajon Pass
- Glendale Train Crash, January Two Thousand Five
- Goffs Schoolhouse: Classroom, Canteen, and Desert Archive
- Goldstone: Fifty Years of Listening to Voyager
- Goodbye, Death Valley: The Forty-Niners and the Name
- Gorman: The Butterfield Stage Stop at the Summit
- Gossamer Condor: The First Human-Powered Flight
- Grace Hudson Museum: Portrait of a People
- Grauman's Chinese Theatre: The Cement Set in Nineteen Twenty-Seven
- Greystone Mansion: The Night of February Sixteenth
- Griffith Observatory: The Gift of a Complicated Man
- Griffith Park: The Guilt Bequest and the Cursed Land
- Hanford's China Alley: Surviving Exclusion
- Hangtown
- Hansen Dam
- Harris Ranch: The Smell That Defines This Drive
- Hastings Adobe: The Man Who Doomed the Donner Party
- Hayes Mansion, San Jose
- Hearst's Political Kingdom: The Castle as Power Projection
- Hells Angels, Fontana, Nineteen Forty-Eight
- Hiller Aviation Museum
- History Park at Kelley Park
- Hollywood and Vine: Where a Ranch Became a Dream
- Humboldt Harbor Light
- Hydraulic Mining and the First Environmental Law
- Imperial Beach: End of the Line
- Indio: America's Arabia and the Date Capital of the World
- Inyo National Forest: Methuselah Walk and the Science of Reading Time in Wood
- Inyo National Forest: Mount Whitney and What the Highest Point Actually Means
- Inyo National Forest: The Bristlecone Pines, Four Thousand Eight Hundred Years of Standing Still
- Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking and the Price of Truth
- Iron Mountain Desert Training Camp
- Irvine: From Tongva Homeland to Master-Planned City
- James Dean's Fatal Crash at Cholame
- January Twenty-Fourth, Eighteen Forty-Eight
- John Montgomery: First to Fly
- Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
- José Serrano Adobe
- Juana Maria: Eighteen Years Alone and the Name She Never Told Anyone
- Juana Maria: Eighteen Years Alone on San Nicolas Island
- Julia Morgan: The Architect Hearst Erased
- Kaiser Steel: The Furnace That Built the Pacific War
- Kaiser Steel: The Inland Empire's War Machine
- Kaiser Steel: The Mill That Saved the War and Killed a City
- Kelso Depot: The Building the Railroad Tried to Demolish
- Kern County Museum and Pioneer Village: The Okie Story in Three Dimensions
- Kettleman City: Due Process in Spanish
- Kimberly Crest
- King of the Missions, and What That Cost
- Kit Carson and the 1844 Fremont Expedition at Carson Pass
- Klamath National Forest: Karuk and Yurok Homelands, Bigfoot Country
- Klamath National Forest: The Salmon River Still Runs Cold
- Klamath: The Town the River Keeps Taking
- La Brea Tar Pits: The Ice Age Under the Miracle Mile
- La Canada de las Uvas: The Canyon the Freeway Buried
- Laguna Beach, The Art Colony That Became a Queer Refuge
- Laguna Woods, California
- Lake Norconian: Resort to Naval Hospital in One Day
- Las Flores Estancia
- Lassen National Forest: The PCT Corridor and the Volcano That Still Moves
- Lassen Peak: The Last Time California's Volcanoes Fired
- Lava Tubes: Eight Hundred Caves in the Dark
- Laws Railroad: The Narrow Gauge to Nowhere
- Leaving the Basin: Interstate Ten Eastbound
- Lebec: Killed by a Bear
- Leimert Park: Black LA's Cultural Center Without a Landmark
- Limekiln: Chinese Labor and the Ruins Nobody Interrogates
- Little Saigon, The Community That Built Itself Along Bolsa Avenue
- Lloyd Wright's Glass Sanctuary (Now in Boxes)
- Long Beach LGBTQ History, The Naval Port's Queer Aftermath
- Loomis, California: Five Names Looking for a Town
- Los Angeles Zoo
- Los Padres National Forest: The California Condor, Extinction in the Wild and the Long Return
- Los Padres National Forest: The Ventana Wilderness and the Backcountry Nobody Finds
- Ludlow: A Ghost Town That Died Twice
- Ludlow: The Mojave Water Stop That Struck Gold
- Madison Grant Saved the Redwoods and Inspired Hitler
- Madonna of the Trail: Twelve Statues, One Message
- Manzanar: Ten Thousand People in the Desert
- Manzanar: Ten Thousand People the Government Tried to Forget
- Mariachi Plaza, Boyle Heights
- Marina del Rey: The Largest Artificial Harbor in the Country
- Marion Davies at Santa Monica: The Other Julia Morgan Building
- Marion Davies: The Woman at the Top of the Hill
- Mark Twain's Frog
- Marta Becket and the Audience She Painted for Herself
- Mary Austin's Desert: The Woman Who Wrote the Valley Before Los Angeles Took It
- May Rindge vs. the State: The Malibu War
- Mayfield Farm: Sarah Wallis and the Suffrage Circle
- McArthur-Burney Falls: The Spring That Outlasted the Dams
- McCloud: Housing by Ethnicity, Wages by Race
- McWay Falls and the View That Belongs to No One
- Mendocino National Forest: Yuki and Pomo Dispossession, the Innermost Range
- Mendocino Village: A New England Town Built by Redwood and Disappearance
- Merle Haggard's Oildale Boxcar
- Mesquite Flat Dunes at Dawn
- Middlefield Crossing: El Camino de en Media
- Mines Field to LAX: The Barley Farm That Became the World's Airport
- Minor Theater: One of the Oldest Movie Houses Still Running
- Mission San Buenaventura: The Aqueduct the Chumash Built Without Wages
- Mission San Gabriel: The Labor Engine of Early Los Angeles
- Mission San José and the East Bay's Highest Mission Population
- Mission Santa Clara: The Valley Before Silicon
- Mission Soledad: Our Lady of Solitude
- Mission Viejo, California
- Modoc National Forest: The Lava Beds and the High Desert Above Them
- Mokelumne City: Gold Rush Rival Swallowed by Floods
- Mono Lake: Seven Hundred Sixty Thousand Years and a Fight Over a Pipe
- Mono Lake: Tufa Towers and the Fight for Water
- Mount Shasta: From Strawberry Valley to Sisson to Here
- Mount Shasta: Sacred Mountain and New Age Real Estate
- Mount Whitney: The Summit and the Naming War
- Mount Wilson Trail: Timber Road to the Stars
- Movieland Wax Museum
- Mt Wilson: Two Discoveries That Changed the Universe
- Muscle Beach
- Muscle Beach: The WPA Invented American Fitness Culture
- NASA Ames and the Blunt Body: How California Engineers Kept Astronauts Alive
- Needles: Gateway at the Edge of California
- Needles: Where the Mojave Meets the Colorado
- Newcastle, California: Gold Country's Orchard Town
- Ng Shing Gung: San Jose's Taoist Temple
- Nixon's Beach House, Where the Western White House Stood
- Nixon's Wedding Was Here
- Norwalk, California
- O'Day Short and the Fire
- Oak of the Golden Dream: California's First Gold Discovery
- Oakwood: The Black Neighborhood That Built Venice
- Old Borges Ranch: Five Generations on Walnut Creek
- Old Orange County Courthouse
- Old Sacramento's Buried Streets
- ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives
- Ontario Motor Speedway: The Indianapolis of the West
- Ontario Motor Speedway: The Indianapolis of the West
- Ophir: The Town Fire Took Twice
- Oro Grande: Cement Town on the High Mojave
- Owens Lake: The Lake That Became a Dust Cloud
- Palm Spring: The Desert Crossroads
- Palos Verdes: Eight Thousand Years and an Olmsted Plan
- Panamint City: Rich Ore, Outlaw Reputation, One Flash Flood
- Pandora's Box: For What It's Worth Happened Here
- Pasadena City Hall and the Rose Bowl: The Parade and What It Hid
- Pena Adobe: Oldest Building in Solano County
- Penryn, California
- Pescadero Marsh: Ten Thousand Years of Hunting and Gathering
- Peter Lebec and the Grizzly
- Petroglyph Point: Five Thousand Images Before the Army Arrived
- Placerville: Old Hangtown on the Mother Lode
- Pleasant Grove Pony Express Station
- Plumas National Forest: Feather River Canyon and the Water PG&E Built Its Empire On
- Pomona
- Pomona College and the Oxford of the Orange Groves
- Pygmy Mammoths and Santarosae: The Drowned Superisland
- Pygmy Mammoths and the Oldest Californians: Channel Islands Before the Chumash
- Pyramid Lake: The Reservoir Dressed as Scenery
- Ralph Lazo: The Teenager Who Walked Into Manzanar
- Rancho Cucamonga
- Rancho Cucamonga: California's Grapevine Capital on Route Sixty-Six
- Rancho Rinconada: The Soto Family Land Grant
- Rancho San Francisco: Forty-Eight Thousand Acres
- Rancho San Lucas: A Mexican Land Grant
- Rancho Temescal: Stagecoach Stop on the Southern Route
- RAND Corporation
- Raymond Watson Bridge and the Making of Irvine
- Red Bluff: Steamboat Port and the Erasure of Chinatown
- Redding: Railroad Town and the Bridge That Tells Time
- Redding's Sundial Bridge: A Pylon Over the Sacramento
- Redlands
- Redlands Bowl: Free Concerts Since Nineteen Twenty-Four
- Rocklin: The Granite Town That Built California and Erased Its Builders
- Roseville: The Railroad Town That Grew in Three Years
- Route Sixty-Six at the Gate of California
- Roy's Motel and Café: The Last Stop in the Mojave
- Ruben Salazar and the Silver Dollar Cafe
- Rum Row: The Big Sur Coves During Prohibition
- Saahatpa: Juan Antonio's Last Village
- Sacramento City Cemetery: City of the Gold Rush Dead
- Sacramento River Massacre, Eighteen Forty-Six
- Salvation Mountain: The Hill Leonard Knight Painted Thirty Years
- San Bernardino de Sena Estancia
- San Bernardino National Forest: Big Bear, Old Fire 2003, and the Lake That Should Not Exist
- San Bernardino National Forest: Lake Arrowhead and the Serrano Homeland Under a Resort
- San Clemente, California
- San Fernando Mission: Founded Seventeen Ninety-Seven
- San Gorgonio: The Highest and the Least Known
- San Juan Capistrano, California
- San Miguel Chapel Site: First Footprint of the Mission
- San Onofre, The Nuclear Plant That Ruined Its Own Replacement Parts
- San Onofre: The Nuclear Plant That Steam Generators Killed
- San Pantaleon: Where the Portola Expedition Camped
- Sand Hill Road: Two Miles That Funded the Digital World
- Santa Fe Engine Three Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty-One
- Santa Fe Springs, California
- Sarah Winchester's House: Grief Without a Ghost Story
- Scotia, California: Redwood Company Town
- Scotty's Castle: The Con Man, the True Believer, and Two Million Dollars
- Sea Ranch and the Coast It Locked Away
- Sears Boyle Heights
- Sequoia National Forest: The Trail of a Hundred Giants and the Trees Outside the Park
- Sequoia National Forest: The Tule River Reservation and the Forest That Was Theirs First
- Shasta Dam and the Drowning of Wintu Ground
- Shasta Lake City: Born from the Dam
- Siberia: The Coldest Name in the Hottest Desert
- Sierra National Forest: Giant Sequoias, the Kings River Canyon, and the Sierra Foothills Miwok
- Six Flags Magic Mountain: Thrill Capital of the World
- Six Rivers National Forest: The Six Rivers, the Hupa, and the Redwood Corridor
- Slab City: Camp Dunlap's Afterlife
- Spahn Ranch: The Counterculture's Last Chapter
- SRI International: Where the Modern World Was Invented
- Stanislaus National Forest: Sonora Pass, Hetch Hetchy's Shadow, and the Miwok Corridor
- Sterlingshire: Gold Rush Gateway on the Pony Express Trail
- Surfrider Beach: Where Ancient Surfing Became Modern Surfing
- Sutter's Ruin
- Sutterville: The Town John Sutter Lost
- Tachi Yokut: The People the Lake Belonged To
- Tahoe National Forest: Maidu and Washoe Homelands, the Forest That Held the Water
- Tahoe National Forest: North Bloomfield and the Hydraulic Mining Disaster
- Tehachapi Loop: A Spiral That Solved a Mountain
- Tejon Ranch and the Two Hundred and Seventy Thousand Acres
- Telescope Peak: Looking Down on Badwater
- Tenaya and the Lake That Carries His Name
- Terra Cotta: Clay Town That Fired and Faded
- The 1857 Earthquake: The Big One That Already Happened
- The 1933 Earthquake and the Law That No One Thanked
- The 300-Mile March: Easter Sunday, Sacramento, 1966
- The Accidental Sea
- The Acjachemen and Mission San Juan Capistrano, The Name They Did Not Choose
- The Acjachemen, Ten Thousand Years at the Mission's Edge
- The Albion Bridge: The Last Wooden Highway Bridge
- The Arrest and Recovery of Mono Lake
- The Arrowhead on the Mountain
- The Avenue of the Giants: Racing the Chainsaw
- The Balboa Pavilion, A Red Car Stop That Outlasted the Railroad
- The Bane Bill and the California Coast
- The Basques of Bakersfield
- The Birthplace of Silicon Valley and the Myth of the Garage
- The Bixby Land, From Tongva Territory to Long Beach Zip Code
- The Black Forty-Niners
- The Blue and Gold: Sunnyvale's Prohibition Speakeasy
- The Blythe Intaglios: Figures Meant Only to Be Seen from the Sky
- The Blythe Intaglios: Giants in the Desert Floor
- The Bodie Church and the Cemetery: What Gets Preserved and Why
- The Bracero Program: Hired by Treaty, Forgotten by Design
- The Bracero Road: Who Works These Fields
- The Bradbury Building: A Vision From the Other Side
- The Cabazon Decision: A Bingo Hall That Changed America
- The Calaveras Sequoias
- The Camel Corps at Fort Tejon
- The CAMP Raids: Helicopters Over Mendocino
- The Cantara Loop Spill: The Day the Sacramento River Died
- The Canyon That Outdoes the Grand Canyon
- The Cascades: Mulholland Opens the Los Angeles Aqueduct
- The Chemosphere, Hollywood Hills
- The Chicano Moratorium: August Twenty-Ninth, Nineteen Seventy
- The Crocker Art Museum
- The Crocker Art Museum: Sacramento's Hidden Treasure
- The Date and the Film
- The Delano Grape Strike: Where the UFW Began
- The Delta King: Sacramento's Floating Palace
- The Dust Bowl Was Not Welcomed Here
- The Dynamite Raids: When Farmers Fought the Aqueduct
- The Eames House: Sixteen Hours to Build the Frame
- The Earthquake at Five Oh Four
- The Eighteen Seventy-Two Earthquake: The Biggest One California Forgot
- The Eureka Inn: Gateway to the Redwoods
- The Figueroa Tunnels: Where Route Sixty-Six Went Underground
- The First Pilgrimage: Returning to Remember Manzanar
- The Folsom Powerhouse
- The Forty Acres: Five Years, Three Hundred Miles
- The Forty-Eight Hours, Terminal Island, 1942
- The Forty-Four Founders: LA Before the Myth
- The Geology That Keeps Winning
- The Grapevine Grade: Engineering Failure on Demand
- The Great Mule Deer Migration Across Highway 395
- The Green Store: Dublin's Oldest Building
- The Ground Is Still Moving
- The Grove That Didn't Survive
- The Holcomb Valley Gold Rush
- The Hollywood Sign: The Billboard That Refused to Die
- The Huntington: The Railroad Baron's Private Universe
- The Indenture Act
- The Kelso Dunes Sing
- The Kern River and the Water That Shapes the Valley
- The Kern River Oil Discovery of Eighteen Ninety-Nine
- The Klamath Dams Come Down
- The Lake That Came Back
- The Largest Marine Base on Earth
- The Looff Hippodrome: Where the Pier Got Its Soul
- The Manzanar Riot: Resistance Inside the Wire
- The Mineral Water Town
- The Modoc Exile: Two Thousand Miles from the Lava Beds
- The Mojave Boneyard: Where Airliners Go to Wait
- The Mooney Grove End of Trail: A Monument to Conquest
- The Mormon Colony That Left Everything Behind
- The Mussel Slough Shooting and the Birth of The Octopus
- The Mystery Spot: California Invents the Gravity Illusion
- The Nineteen Fifty-Two Kern County Earthquake
- The Nisenan's American River
- The Oldest Winery West of the Mississippi
- The Only President of California
- The Owens Valley Indian War: The March South
- The Oxnard Strike of 1903: The Union That Chose Its Allies
- The Padre Hotel
- The Pageant of the Masters, Depression Stunt That Survived Ninety Years
- The Paiute of the Owens Valley: Four Thousand Years Before the Aqueduct
- The Parent Navel Orange Tree
- The Pike, Walt Disney's Cautionary Tale That Became His Inspiration
- The Pit River Nation's Land Claim: Treaties Buried for Fifty Years
- The Plank Road Across the Imperial Dunes
- The Pony Express
- The Pulikla: Downriver Yurok of the Klamath
- The Racetrack Playa Mystery and Its Three-Year Solution
- The Railroad Baron's Monument
- The Red Cookhouse: Chinese Workers at the Cowell Lime Works
- The Reservation the Sea Swallowed
- The Road That Silver Built and Snow Shuts
- The Sacramento Chinese Quarter
- The Sacramento River and the Tower Bridge
- The Salton Sea's Vanishing Shoreline and the Dust That Remains
- The San Ysidro Crossing: Eighty-Seven Thousand a Day
- The Santa Monica Pier: The End of the American Road
- The Sebastian Reservation: Multiple Peoples, One Fence
- The Serrano Were Force-Marched Out of Their Mountains
- The Sheepherder's Bread: A Basque Tradition in the High Desert
- The Silicon Valley Superfund: The Landscape Below the Circuit Board
- The SLAC Accelerator: Two Miles of Physics Under a Suburb
- The Southern Pacific and the Railroad Town
- The Speedee Service System
- The St. Francis Dam: Mulholland's Catastrophe
- The State of Jefferson: When Northern California Almost Left
- The Sylmar Earthquake: How a Six A.M. Tremor Rewrote Building Codes
- The Tehachapi Loop: A Train Crossing Over Itself
- The Tehachapi Wind Farm: The First One
- The Thirst That Drained a Valley
- The Timbisha Shoshone: A Homeland Inside a National Park
- The Tongva and the Palos Verdes Bluffs, Seven Thousand Years
- The Tule Lake Pilgrimage: Survivors Who Built Their Own Memorial
- The Twenty Mule Teams: Ten Tons of Borax, a Hundred and Sixty-Five Miles
- The Valley John Muir Died to Save
- The Vegas Approach: What Primm Means
- The Venice Red Cars: Transit, Race, and the Lost Network
- The Warehouse Coast
- The Whalers of San Simeon: Blood in the Cove Before the Castle
- The Whisky a Go Go: Where the Strip Made the Counterculture
- The Wolfskill Grant: First Vineyards of the Valley
- The Woolsey Fire: Malibu Burns, Again
- The Yokuts of the Kern River
- The Zentgraf Vineyard: A German Farmer's Wager
- The Zoot Suit Riots, June Nineteen Forty-Three
- Tongva: The People PCH Was Built Through
- Tower Records
- Travel Town Museum
- Tufa Architecture: Chemistry as Landscape
- Tulare Lake Drainage: The Forty-Year Erasure of Seven Hundred Square Miles
- Tulare Lake: The Inland Sea Under the Cotton Fields
- Tule Lake: When No Was the Honest Answer
- Tustin, California
- UC Davis: From University Farm to Wine Capital
- UC Santa Cruz: The University That Threw Out Grades
- Ukiah: Deep Valley of the Pomo
- Union Station: The Last Great Terminal
- University of Redlands
- Upton Sinclair Arrested for Reading the First Amendment
- Vacaville: Named by a Rancho Land Deal
- Valencia, California: Tataviam Village to the Newhall Ranch
- Venice, California: Tongva Marshland to Abbot Kinney's Dream
- Ventura's Beaux-Arts Courthouse
- Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum
- Walt Disney Concert Hall: Sixteen Years From Gift to Opening Night
- Walt Disney in Burbank: The Factory Behind the Fantasy
- Watts Towers: The Man Who Built Something Big
- Watts, August Nineteen Sixty-Five
- Weed: Built on Wind and Lumber
- Weedpatch Camp and the Federal Migrant Shelters
- West Union: The Lumber Town That Vanished
- Will H. Buck House: Victorian Fruit Baron
- Will Rogers: The Cowboy Philosopher and the Ranch Above the Pacific
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- William S. Hart: The Cowboy Who Gave It All Away
- Willows: The Drover's Rest Becomes a County Seat
- Winema: The Warning Nobody Listened To
- Woodland: Rescued County Seat
- Wyntoon: The Hearst Nobody Visits
- Yank's Station: Where the Pony Express Crossed into California
- Yogananda's Echo Park Temple: Where the Practice Came Ashore
- Yogananda's Lake Shrine: Gandhi's Ashes and a Wall-Less Temple
- Yolo: The County Seat Nobody Remembers
- Yreka: Gold Rush County Seat
- Yucaipa: Wetlands of the Serrano
- Zabriskie Point: The Borax Man, the Film, and the View