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.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

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