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.

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

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

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

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