Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The last of its kind in the country.

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.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

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

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.