The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

The second-longest pier in the U.K. stretches a whole kilometer into the Irish Sea.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

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

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

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

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

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

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".