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.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

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

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

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

The former Nazi concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

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