Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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

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

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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

World's largest Christmas store.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

This experiment in the lifespan of seeds will take a century before it is complete.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.