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

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The world's longest known cave system.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.