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

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

This deceiving white sand beach gets its brilliant hue from the chemical discharge of a nearby factory.

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.