This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

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.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

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

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.