These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

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

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

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

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The gardens and chambers of this Moorish citadel conjure memories of the Alhambra.

A window into a long-lost world, these colorful tiles advertise a long-defunct range of purgative teas, harmless smokables, and diarrhea cures.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

The fragmented remains of a massive public bath connected to the city's water supply.

Part of the medieval watchtower is displayed in an otherwise ordinary parking garage.