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

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.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Venice's island of the dead.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

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

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

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

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.