Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

Bombed and burned, this monument represents the often controversial ties between Vietnam and Cambodia.

Originally a meeting place for foreign correspondents and war reporters, the FCC remains an atmospheric spot for sunset drinks in Phnom Penh.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

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

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

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

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

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