This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

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

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.