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Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

The last of its kind in the country.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.