Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.