It's hard to top Sacramento's rich and fascinating history—this is Gold Rush country, after all!

The Egyptians were the early pioneers of prosthetic technology. It was made of bronze and iron, with a wooden core, apparently for a below-knee amputee. C., Herodotus wrote of a Persian seer who was condemned to death but escaped by amputating his own foot and making a wooden filler to walk 30 miles to the next town. D.) wrote of a Roman general in the Second Punic War (218-210 B. He had an iron hand fashioned to hold his shield and was able to return to battle.