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UNDERGROUND 2018: A PHOTO ESSAY

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: November 11, 2018
Category: Mines/Ghost Towns

Traveling back to the outskirts of Tecopa, CA to spend my third year exploring the Shoshone Mines at Underground 2018.

STORRIER STEARNS JAPANESE GARDEN: A HIDDEN GEM IN THE HEART OF PASADENA

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: September 3, 2018
Category: Architecture

This once private 2-acre hidden gem is the only intact example of a major Japanese-style garden created before World War II for a residence in Southern California.

ALTA SIERRA BIBLICAL GARDENS: THE SIERRA GARDEN OF EDEN

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: August 27, 2018
Category: Roadside Attractions

Finding gold, God, and the Sierra Garden of Eden in California’s Gold Country.

FORESTIERE UNDERGROUND GARDENS: FRESNO’S COOL UNDERGROUND RETREAT

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: August 9, 2018
Category: Architecture, Roadside Attractions

In the early 1900s, a Sicilian immigrant, citrus grower, and visionary turned a vast underground network of rooms, tunnels, and courtyards into a subterranean escape from the sweltering Central Valley summer heat.

THE VICTORIAN HILLSIDE CEMETERIES WHERE VIRGINIA CITY’S DEAD REST IN PEACE

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: July 4, 2018
Category: Mines/Ghost Towns

The Silver Terrace Cemeteries memorialize the diverse laborers who worked the Comstock and made Virginia City a boom town.

WIND WOLVES PRESERVE: HIKING THE WEST COAST’S LARGEST NONPROFIT NATURE PRESERVE

Post By: stRAyNGER
Date: June 23, 2018
Category: Nature/Hikes

Rolling grasslands, wildflowers, wetlands, oak savannas, and pinyon forests converge to create one of the most uniquely diversified nature preserves in California.