A sweet museum focused on beets.

The largest toy museum in Poland showcases Europe's history of childhood.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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 art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

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

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

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

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

The outside of this theater is decorated with a Diego Rivera mural that explores the history of Mexico.

A hidden room within the church displays an amazing collection of old choir books.