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

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

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

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

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

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

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

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.