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

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.