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

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

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.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

A statue representing a lost Roman profession that was vandalized for centuries.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

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

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.