A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

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

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

An old church full of restored Catholic statues is a makeup artist's labor of love.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.