This is one really big nut.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

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

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

Authentic gondola hanging from the ceiling, notable mural in the back room.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

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.

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

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

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

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.