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The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

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

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.