Castello di Amorosa is a castle and a winery located near Calistoga, California. It is the creation of Dario Sattui, who wanted to honor his grandfather Vittorio by building something that paid homage to his home in Italy. By the time he finished, he had created a 121,000-square-foot, 12th-century Tuscan style, castle to house his winery. The Castello was made with brick, wood and iron imported from Europe and combined with over 8,000 tons of local Napa Valley stone. It produces world-class wines including popular white and red wines as well as proprietary Italian-inspired blends like Il Barone, La Castellana, and Il Passito. The popular Napa Valley destination offers a variety wine tastings and tours including a food and wine pairing tour and a cheese and wine tour in a unique Tuscan castle setting.

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Salvation Mountain is a literal man-made mountain 28 years in the making, covered in half a million gallons of latex paint. What started as a small monument made of dirt and painted cement became, over time, a sprawling adobe and hay-bale mountain complex, with peripheral structures made of telephone poles, tires, and car windows, as well as art cars and sculptures. The mountain was created by Leonard Knight after his hot air balloon failed in this bleak patch of desert near the Salton Sea. God, Knight knew, wanted him to continue spreading his message of love in this hostile environment. I strongly encourage anyone who dares to make the pilgrimage to the Salton Sea to stop by and soak in the glorious vibes of Salvation Mountain.

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El Mirage Lake is a dry lake bed in the northwestern Victor Valley of the central Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California. The dry lake, at an elevation of 2,840 ft (870 m), is approximately 6 mi (9.7 km) long. For 50 years the lakebed has been used by the Southern California Timing Association for timed speed runs. The club also operates the Bonneville Salt Flats speed runs. Land speed racing is a form of motorsport. The sport’s origins date to the 1930s in California, when the Southern California Timing Association first held meets for a variety of hot rodded vehicles. Land Speed Racing is about inventing, creating, experiencing and learning. It’s about exceeding boundaries, natural, technical and personal. For some people, even finding their purpose in life. The official land-speed record is 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mi/h) (Mach 1.020), set by Andy Green on 15 October 1997 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, in Thrust SSC.

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Moments of the 2017 BNP Paribas Open, ATP and WTA professional tennis tournament at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley. Incorporated in 1967, it lies in between Palm Desert and the resort town of La Quinta. The city hosts the fifth-largest tennis tournament in the world.

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Caroline Wozniacki

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Kristina Mladenovic

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Belinda Bencic

Belinda Bencic

Belinda Bencic

Elina Svitolina

Elina Svitolina

Andrea Petkovic

Andrea Petkovic

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Ana Konjuh

Ana Konjuh

Annika Beck

Kiki Bertens

Qiang Wang

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Lake Berryessa is the largest lake in Napa County, California. This reservoir in the Vaca Mountains is formed by the Monticello Dam, which provides water and hydroelectricity to the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The reservoir was named for the first European settlers in the Berryessa Valley. Huge drain hole at Lake Berryessa Monticello dam is known as “The Glory Hole”,this strange feature is an open bell-mouth spillway, 72 feet in diameter. The pipe has a straight drop of 200 feet and the diameter shrinks down to about 28 feet. In 1997 a woman was killed after being pulled inside the spillway.

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Capitol building looks like a mini replica of U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Located in Sacramento, the Neoclassical structure was completed between 1861 and 1874 at the west end of Capitol Park. The building serves as both a museum and the state’s working seat of government. Visitors to the Capitol can at once experience California’s rich history and witness the making of history through the modern lawmaking process. Guests can explore all public areas of the California State Capitol and its surrounding park daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for free.

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Native American people have occupied the Carrizo Plain for at least the last 10,000 years. The Carrizo Plain National Monument lies primarily within the historical territory of the Chumash people. This 50-mile stretch of protected land includes the Temblor and Caliente Mountain Ranges and Soda Lake, the largest natural alkali lake in the state. This lake is a unique sight, whether it’s full of water and frolicking birds, or dried out with dust devils spinning across it. All of this natural beauty and diverse wildlife sits in California’s Central Valley, better known for industrial agriculture than for wildflowers. This location may help explain why, as the Bureau of Land Management puts it, the “Carrizo Plain National Monument is one of the best kept secrets” in the state.

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Jared Gilmore, Michael Socha, Emilie de Ravin, Colin O’Donoghue, Josh Dallas, Lana Parrilla, Robert Carlyle, Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin, Georgina Haig, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis and other cast of Once Upon a Time attended a gala season 4 premiere screening event at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood.

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LA Kings players aboard double-decker buses hoisted the Stanley Cup, shining bright on a sunny Southern California day, above their heads as they passed cheering fans on the route to Staples Center. Thousands of L.A. Kings fans celebrated the hockey team’s nail-biting victory for the Stanley Cup Championship for the second time in three seasons with a parade and rally downtown Monday.

Where: Downtown Los Angeles, California
When: Monday, June 16 at 11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET)

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This magnificent mountains covers much of the center of California, running 400 miles from north to south. Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks all lie within the Sierra Nevada MOuntains. The range contains some of the most beautiful landscapes to be found anywhere in the world. The terrain is so varied that one may start out in desert conditions and end up with the sound of crunching ice under foot

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Six Flags Magic Mountain is well known for world-class roller coasters and over 100 rides, games and attractions. It offers the world-class roller coasters and thrill rides like Full Throttle, the world’s tallest and fastest looping coaster, LEX LUTHOR: Drop of Doom, the world’s tallest vertical drop ride, GREEN LANTERN: First Flight, a spinning coaster on a zigzag pattern track, Tatsu, the tallest, fastest and longest flying coaster on Earth. The fastest coaster can reach up to 100 mph, making it one of the fastest in North America. One of these rides has a vertical drop of 415 feet, which is one of the steepest roller coaster drops in North America. That is more than 20 stories of free fall.

Full Price Tickets:

General Admission $67.99
Children Under 48″ $42.99
Children 2 & Under FREE

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Bubble Gum Alley is located in San Luis Obispo on Higuera Street. The alley is the city’s most popular unofficial landmark, It is a 15-foot (4.6 m) high and 70-foot (21 m) long alley lined with chewed gum left by passers-by. The gum started appearing on the walls in 1960. People complained but the gum kept on coming. The wall is not a random collection of gooey gums, some people in San Luis Obispo consider the wall a form of art. One can see an array of shapes, words and designs. There are faces and flowers, fraternity and sorority letters.

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Death Valley is a desert located in the southwestern United States of America. It is one of the driest, hottest places on earth. The second-highest recorded temperature was 134 F (57C), in July, 1913. Highest average rain fall was recorded in 1913 at 4.5 inches. It has the lowest elevation on the continent — 282 feet below sea level. Nearly 550 square miles of its area lie below sea level. The valley itself is 130 miles (210 km) long, between six and 13 miles (10-21 km) wide and is surrounded by steep mountain ranges: the Panamint mountains to the west, and the Black, Funeral, and Grapevine mountains to the east. Even with its extremes, the park still receives nearly a million visitors each year.

Rates & Fees:
Vehicle Entrance Fee: $20.00 for 7 Days
Individual Entrance Fee: $10.00 for 7 Days

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The Hays Antique Truck Museum is museum with a unique and one of the largest collections of antique trucks in the United States for all people who interested in the history of trucking. The museum’s collection includes over 100 different old trucks, representing 94 different manufacturers such as Fageol, Freightliner, Mack, Sterling, Oshkosh, Peterbilt.

Opening Hours:

Mo-Fr – 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Sa – 10:00 AM to 06:00 PM
Su – 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM

1931 Ford Model AA High Rack Stakebed

1930 Linn 4-28 10 Ton Half-Track Cab & Chassis

1930 Linn 4-28 10 Ton Half-Track Cab & Chassis

1937 Diamond T 212B Gas Tanker

1937 Diamond T 212B Gas Tanker

1936 Chevrolet FB 1½ Ton Pickup

1936 Chevrolet FB 1½ Ton Pickup

1939 Dodge TF39 1½ Ton Flatbed

1939 Ford 991W 1½ Ton C.O.E. Stake Truck

1933 FWD Snogo Model F Snowplow

1936 Dodge Brothers LE31 1½ Ton Stake Bed

1937 Ford 1½ Ton Chassis with 1931 Rix-Six Air Compressor

1938 Fageol 300RA 3-5 Ton chassis

1939 Chevrolet 1½ Ton Flatbed

1939 Peterbilt 260GD 5 Ton Tractor

1940 GMC-Van Pelt AC300 4×2 250 GPM Pumper

1942 Mack District Pumper

1942 Dodge WC51 ¾ Ton 4X4 Weapons Carrier

1944 Sterling HWS1 60H 6-Wheel Flatbed

1946 Kenworht 4×2 Tractor with 1943 GMC Stake Bed Drop Trailer

1948 Ford F-3 ¾ Ton Flatbed

1948 GMC 450 fire truck

1953 Kenworth Tractor

1960 Mack Model B-125 Fire Truck

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These sculptures were built from scrap metal, wire and reinforcement bars by sculptor Ricardo Breceda. He created all the sculptures, including life size prehistoric creatures, elephants, camels, horses, dragon … The sculptures look like a natural part of the landscape, and from a distance appear very real. This unusual tourist attraction is a desert creature park open to anyone brave enough to face the desert and the unbearable heat that comes with it.

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