The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

This museum is a music lover's introduction to the iconic venue.

This millstone commemorates a gruesome tale that may have been the source of the city's name.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

The corner walls of a primary school showcase a Mexican version of memento mori.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.