San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

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

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

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

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.