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

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Limestone outcrop decorated with a large laser engraving of the Buddha.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.