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California · 58 Counties

Explore California's
historic places

A gamified map of markers, missions, cemeteries, courthouses, museums and moss‑draped coastal landmarks — with the real stories behind them. Visit them, collect them, learn them.

Now on the iPhone App Store Also live on the web

Free & ad‑free on the iPhone App Store. Prefer the browser? The web map is free too — you'll sign in with your Apple ID, and your visits sync across both.

Note: Guided Tours & Trails are in the iOS app only — not on the web map.

51,592 historic places 4,121 markers written up 9 categories

What you'll discover

Ten kinds of California history, on one map

Sourced from public archives and the California Historical Commission, hand‑checked, and written up in plain language.

🏛️
51,592
Historic places
🪧
1,083
State landmarks
📍
758
Points of historical interest
⚓
2,793
Military & maritime
⚰️
1,900+
Cemeteries
🎓
482
Colleges & universities
⚖️
172
Courthouses
✝️
21
Spanish missions
🦅
26
National Park units
🗼
74
Lighthouses

Follow a thread

Curated trails through the past

Themed collections that connect the dots across the whole state.

★ In the app · iPhone & iPad Guided Tours & Trails are in the iOS app only — not on the web map.
21 missions

Spanish Missions & El Camino Real

The chain of missions, presidios and asistencias that runs from San Diego de Alcalá to Sonoma — and the road that linked them.

Mother Lode

Gold Rush Country

Sutter's Mill, the Highway 49 camps, stamp mills and assay offices — the boom that made the state, still standing in the foothills.

Hollywood

Film & Television History

Studio lots, backlots, the Walk of Fame and the locations you have seen a hundred times without knowing where they were.

Self‑guided audio tour

The Mission Trail — San Juan Capistrano

A walking tour of the Jewel of the Missions and the town that grew around it — narrated stops that trigger on your phone as you arrive, from the Serra Chapel to Los Rios, the oldest neighbourhood in California.

Free flagship tour · walkable · stops trigger by GPS

Start roaming California

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Note: Guided Tours & Trails are in the iOS app only — not on the web map.