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.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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

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

A building so large that it has its own weather.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.