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Santa Ana, California
The John A. Maag Farmhouse, built by John and Catherine Maag amid an orchard, is one of the historic buildings preserved at the Heritage…
Healdsburg, California
John Alexander Paxton built this 17-room, three-storey Victorian on Madrona Knoll in 1880–81, commuting up at weekends from the city. After…
Coloma, California
Visitors to Marshall's Monument describe an indistinct shadow following them up the hill to the grave of James Marshall, the man who found…
Stevenson Ranch, California
Mentryville was an oil boomtown in Pico Canyon and is now a park with the Mentry family's restored 13-room mansion, a one-room schoolhouse…
Fresno, California
Visitors and staff at the Meux Home report children's laughter from the upstairs rooms, and doorknobs that go missing from several doors…
Riverside, California
The Mission Inn began in 1876 as a small adobe boarding house run by the Miller family. Over the following decades Frank Miller built it…
Lompoc, California
Founded on December 8, 1787, Mission La Purísima Concepción was rebuilt at its present site after the 1812 earthquake destroyed the…
Gilroy, California
A girl in a long white dress is said to ride a horse through the fog over the hills of Mount Madonna and vanish, and visitors have…
Murphys, California
Staff and guests at the Murphys Historic Hotel report small objects thrown in the kitchen and the Mark Twain Ballroom, a presence on the…
Nevada City, California
Pearson and Healy opened the National Exchange Hotel on August 20, 1856, leasing the brick Bicknell Block after a fire that swept through…
Los Angeles, California
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Exposition Park opened in 1913 and holds one of the largest natural and cultural…
Nevada City, California
North Bloomfield, once called Humbug, was the supply town for the huge hydraulic mining pit at Malakoff Diggins and held more than 2,000…
Ojai, California
Opened in 1923 as a Spanish Colonial-style resort that later hosted guests like Clark Gable and Judy Garland, the Ojai Valley Inn served as…
Sacramento, California
Old Sacramento's underground spaces are the remains of ground-floor rooms buried when the city raised its streets after the 1860s floods.…
Redding, California
Shasta was a Gold Rush supply center and county seat whose brick storefronts line Highway 299 as roofless ruins. The restored 1861…
Ventura, California
Raymundo Olivas and his friend Felipe Lorenzana were granted the 4,670-acre Rancho San Miguel by Mexican governor Juan B. Alvarado in…
Bakersfield, California
The Padre Hotel opened in downtown Bakersfield in 1928. From 1954 it belonged to Milton "Spartacus" Miller, an eccentric who fought City…
Los Angeles, California
The reports at the Palace Theatre belong to the people who worked it rather than to anyone who died: two old stagehands are described…
Ridgecrest, California
Panamint City was a rowdy silver camp of about 2,000 people after the 1873 strike, with Death Valley's first newspaper, until a 1876 flash…
Pasadena, California
Gilmor Brown founded the Pasadena Community Playhouse in 1917, starting out in a converted burlesque house, and in 1925 moved into the…
Paso Robles, California
On December 19, 1940, a cigarette discarded in a wastebasket started a fire on the second floor of the Paso Robles Inn. Night clerk J.H.…
Los Angeles, California
The Pico House, an Italianate hotel built by Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of Alta California, stands in El Pueblo de Los Angeles…
Big Sur, California
Point Sur Lightstation stands on a volcanic rock off Highway 1 and is now a California State Historic Park. Docents tell of an apparition…
San Diego, California
Visitors and staff at Presidio Park describe hooded, cloaked figures walking the Junípero Serra Museum's perimeter and a child seen near…