This two-color traveler’s companion features more than 130 of California’s best missions, mansions, and museums. In addition to insider information on many of the destinations, the guide features themed tours that will appeal to tourists and armchair travelers alike, history buffs, as well as teachers and parents. Explore a Russian fort, an island prison; the West’s version of Ellis Island; a U.S. Naval weapons development; presidential museums; quirky, human-powered vehicles; sailing ships and aircraft carriers; California’s gold mines; mansions built by some of the country’s richest entrepreneurs; the art of American, Asian, and European masters, and much more. Each of eight sections covers a separate geographic region. Every entry details the highlights of a particular place and includes operating hours, entrance fees, location, a phone number, and website information. Themed tours range from famous Californians, to lighthouses, ghost towns, and much more. This guidebook is a must-have for anyone interested in California's eclectic history.

If you love travel and history, then this second-in-a-series guide is a great travel companion. It takes you to mansions built by many of Oregon and Washington’s pioneer entrepreneurs who created new industries and new cities. It includes the best museums, featuring Native American culture and pioneer farmers-small town museums, big city museums, and museums just for kids-plenty for everyone. The title’s “More” includes monuments like Vista House at Crown Point perched high above Columbia Gorge and a tour through Bonneville Dam, with suggested journeys to flower farms, wineries, and unique city tours.

There’s gold in California’s Sierra foothills, and it runs red, pink, and white—wine! For wine aficionados, history lovers, and curious travelers, this book is an entertaining companion to one of California’s most intriguing wine areas. Although less well known than the Napa and Sonoma wine regions, the roots of wine growing here in these higher elevations run deep-as far back as the 1850s, when the first vineyards were planted to satisfy the thirst of the 49ers.