Tanforan Shopping Mall, San Bruno, CA, 1942.
Formerly a racetrack, now an assembly center for Japanese and Japanese Americans, before sending them off to other internment camps.

Chinese Camp, (Tuolumne County), CA. 1849
The first Chinese laborers arriving in California were driven here from other camps. By 1856, this notable gold mining town is the home of four of the six protective associations had agents in the town, and is the location of the first tong war, between Sam Yap and Yan Woo tongs

Kenwood, Chicago, IL. 1924
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnap and kill Bobby Frank, a 14 years old neighbor, in an attempt to commit the perfet crime. The trial was the first to be dubbed as the" Trial of the Century", and is known in the history of American thought on capital punishment, as the two were convicted to life in prison, after their attorney fought for mercy and medical treatment for the murderers.

Castell de Montjuïc, Barcelona, Spain
The castle , also a prison, was the site of numerous executions: the execution of anarchist supporters, which in turn led to a severe repression of the workers' struggle for their rights, in 1897. Later, Spanish republicans and nationalists were executed, having been held by both sides during the Spanish Civil War. Catalan politician Lluís Companys i Jover was also executed there in 1940. Now it is a military museum

Tehachapi Loop, Kern county, CA. 1876
The Tehachapi Loop is part of the Southern Pacific/Santa Fe rail line that goes through the Tehachapi area. Due to the steep grade, railway engineers building the track in the 1870's made a loop, where the track makes a full circle to gain altitude. The construction was undertaken by American engineers and Chinese workmen. The Chinese were mostly recruited from Canton area. Construction tools were mostly dynamite, picks and shovels. Many of the workmen were killed during this dangerous work.

Noriega St. San Francisco CA. 1974
Patty Hearst ("Tania") is seen on the Hibernia National Bank's surveillance camera, during the Symbionese Liberation Army robbery

Sharp Park, CA. 1942
March 30, the INS opens a temporary Detention Center.Set on a former state relief camp, this facility held people of Japanese descent from California and Peru; as well as German, Italian, and Chinese nationals. It became the main holding center for those arrested in Northern California. In 1943, a fight broke out among the Chinese, Japanese American, and Japanese Peruvian detainees over the raising of a Chinese flag.

Main St., Napa, CA. 1969
The Zodiac Killer reports his Lake Berryessa murder; the call is tracked to a phone booth in front of a car wash on Main St.

Odessa, Ukraine, 1941
One of the KGB (then called NKVD) HQ on Marazlievskaya (then Engels) St. During WW2, the partisan blew up the Romanian security HQ, (they were using the same buildings). This started the Odessa massacre, the extermintaion of the Jews of Odessa and its surrounding between fall 1941 and winter 1942. Leaders of the Jewish communities were shot dead; exact numbers unknown.

Downieville, CA. 1851
The only recorded case of a woman lynched in California.

Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, 1942
Wartime Civil Control Administration Station is used for relocation of Japanese Americans, both citizens and aliens. (Order #9066 was rescinded by President Gerald Ford in 1976)

Altamont Racetrack, CA. 1969
Rolling Stones concert. Four people die; one is killed by a member of the Hell's Angels, who were invited to be security guards at the concert