A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

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

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

Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

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

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

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.

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.

Perched high atop telephone poles is an uncanny outdoor art gallery that greets passersby on their commute.