The Sierra Nevada’s mountain range contains some of the most amazing wonders found on the planet, filled with such notable geographic features including Lake Tahoe, three National Parks, two National…

On March 1, 1872 President Ulysses S. Grant signed into existence the world’s first national park, Yellowstone National Park. The 2.2 million acres of wilderness is the only complete mid-latitude…

Johann Christoph Haizmann, who lived in the 1650s, was a painter and a deeply disturbed individual. His intricate paintings of the devil and his elaborate journal entries depicting encounters with…