Trip: California + Vegas Road Trip

Modeled after a European opera house, this multipurpose theater opened in November 2001 at a cost of $94 million. It hosts plays, concerts, television specials and the Academy Awards. Guided tours are available daily.

Built in 1926 and remodeled in 1942, El Capitan Theatre is currently operated by Walt Disney and shows mainly Disney films.

Just before midnight on June 20, 1947, gangster Bugsy Siegel was murdered by the Mafia by multiple gunshots through a window of this Moorish-style home, which was rented by his mistress Virginia Hill.

Completed in 1928, this historic hotel in Beverly Hills was once home to Warren Beatty and Elvis Presley (1958-60). It also enjoyed a starring role in Pretty Woman (1990).

A notorious federal prison, historic Alcatraz is also a Civil War fortress, the home of the first lighthouse on the West Coast, and the birthplace of the Indian Red Power movement.

Rebuilt in 1945 after the 1907 original was damaged by a passing truck, the Lowell Bridge is the widest covered bridge in Oregon.

Completed in 1937, the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is one of the most famous landmarks in America.

This historic hotel in southern Oregon was built in 1883, catering to stagecoach travelers en route between San Francisco and Portland. Now part of a state park, the Wolf Creek Inn is the oldest operating hotel in Oregon.

Recently rebuilt, the Chambers Railroad Bridge is the last covered railroad bridge remaining in Oregon. It was built by the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railroad in 1936 to provide access to a sawmill in Cottage Grove.

The first bridge on this site was built in the 1880s; the present Parvin Bridge (a.k.a. Lost Creek Bridge) dates from 1921. Bypassed and restricted to pedestrians in the 1970s, it was restored in 1986 and is once again open to traffic.