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

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.