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

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

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

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

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.