An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.