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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

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

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.