The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

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

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

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