A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

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

The precise origins of this pink sandstone temple are unknown.

This stone quarry was used to make axes and other tools more than 6,000 years ago.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

15,000 year old bison sculptures.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

Legend has it this 11th-century castle was paid a visit from the devil.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."