This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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

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.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The last of its kind in the country.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.