Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

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

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

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Oldest building in California still in use.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The last Americana on Route 66.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.