Best of California's Missions, Mansions, and Museums: A Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Golden State's Historic and Cultural Treasures

by Ken McKowen, Dahlynn McKowen

This two-color traveler’s companion features more than 130 of California’s best missions, mansions, and museums. In addition to insider information on many of the destinations, the guide features themed tours that will appeal to tourists and armchair travelers alike, history buffs, as well as teachers and parents. Every entry details the highlights of a particular place and includes operating hours, entrance fees, location, a phone number, and website information. Themed tours range from famous Californians, to lighthouses, ghost towns, and much more. This guidebook is a must-have for anyone interested in California's eclectic history.

344 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2006

Reviews

[christina]

This is a nearly perfect travel companion guide. It is not of the map and hotel listing variety, but there are plenty of those.
It has some more obscure museums listed as well as historic/ notable architectural homes which is information fairly hard to come by in any general travel book.
I gave it only four stars as it has almost no maps! A travel guide without maps, how strange i hear you say, but this is a terrible and shockingly common oversight.