The Dunes Hotel and Casino

The Dunes Hotel and Casino opened on the Las Vegas Strip in 1955. Robert Dorr Jr. and John Replogle designed and built the Dunes for $3.5 million, and the resort became known as “the Miracle in the Desert.” Its distinguishing ...

Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland opened along with the other original parks of Disneyland on July 17, 1955. Walt Disney built the park to showcase the technological advancements of the decade and designed it to project what scientists expected the year 1986 to be ...

Tovrea Castle

The Tovrea Castle earned its name from the property’s second owner, Della Tovrea, who made the castle her home from the 1930s until the late 1960s. However, the castle’s construction began shortly beforehand when Alessio Carraro, a successful Italian immigrant ...

Tuba City, Navajo Nation

Tuba City is located in the western portion of the Navajo Reservation in Coconino County, Arizona. As early as 1776, Fray Francisco Garces visited the area and encountered Native Americans farming the land. A group of Mormons originally laid out ...

Tusayan Ruins

The Tusayan Ruin site, located in the Grand Canyon, once served as the village of the Ansazi people. The tribe settled in the Grand Canyon during 1185BCE. Before the Anasazi, various types of nomadic Indians lived in the area and ...

Wente Vineyards

Located just east of San Francisco, and nestled in the picturesque Livermore Valley, Wente Vineyards continues a long tradition of impressive wine production. Wente Vineyards, is the oldest family owned winery in the United States, and credited for much of ...

Wrigley Mansion

Built by William Wrigley, Jr., the founder of Wrigley Chewing Gum and former owner of the Chicago Cubs, the Wrigley Mansion in Phoenix, Arizona first served as the family’s winter vacation home.

A savvy businessman, Wrigley invested $1.7 million in ...

Universal Studios

From bringing Frankenstein’s monster to life, to creating genetically engineered dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, Universal Studios brings the depths of the imagination to life.

In 1909, Carl Laemmle founded the International Motion Picture Company, and by 1912, the Universal Film ...

Deer Trap Mesa

Outside of Los Alamos, New Mexico, a small mesa provides not only a beautiful view but also a broad cross-section of the past. Explorers named Deer Trap Mesa after finding a small game pit once used by native hunters.

Thousands ...

Warner Brothers

A simple water tower, built in 1926, received the Warner Brother’s iconic “W.B” logo, representing the studio’s founding brothers. Harry, Sam, Jack, and Albert Warner opened the Sunset Boulevard location of Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, California. The brothers originally ...