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If you’re looking to escape the noise and rush of everyday life, quiet desert towns in California offer a peaceful ...

A drug cartel took over a gold mine. Here's how an American businessman and his trusted fixer persuaded the Mexican ...

Nevada’s Great Basin Star Train takes passengers on a three-hour journey through the desert for a guided stargazing ...

Nevada’s Great Basin Star Train takes passengers on a three-hour journey through the desert for a guided stargazing ...

The Whaley House Museum in San Diego manages to be both a pristine example of 19th-century architecture and the setting for enough paranormal activity to fill a dozen scary movies. This isn’t some run ...

The journey to McCloud is the perfect prelude to what awaits – a gradual decompression from the modern world. As you travel north on Interstate 5, the landscape transforms from California’s familiar ...

Locality is often central to what makes dive bars beloved to their customers, but dive bar lovers everywhere should cross these off their bucket lists.

High desert mountains, sagebrush flats, and sage grouse breeding grounds are in the heart of a region threatened by a resurgence in mining activities happening in the Eastern Sierra — ...

To be clear, an act of Congress with a signature by a U.S. president (the pathway to official status) did not confer the ...