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

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.