The last of its kind in the country.

The historic single-screen movie theater is one of only four cinemas in the world to screen films in VistaVison format.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

This nondescript tunnel has been featured in a number of iconic movies, from “Roger Rabbit” to “Back to the Future.”

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

This 23-foot-tall bear stands amid the hustle and bustle of Hamad International Airport.

Qatar's oldest market can trace its origins back more than a century.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Kuwait City's uniquely designed water towers look straight out of a retro sci-fi cityscape.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

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

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

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