Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

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

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

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

A huge, bustling local market in Panama City.

This seaside production studio was built to film 'Titanic' and has been the wet set of choice for other Hollywood productions since.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

This column celebrates Rome's victory over the Goths, and may be the oldest Roman monument in Istanbul.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

This unique rock formation is quite the local celebrity, although one day it may come crashing down.

Two towns are linked by an engineering marvel masquerading as a boring suspension bridge.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.

According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.