Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

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

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Opened as part of the New Deal, the training facility now features World War II-era structures and a pylon that once stood at the World Trade Center.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

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

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.