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.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

This museum is a music lover's introduction to the iconic venue.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.