On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

Traversing these canyons, visitors can take in stunning views and glimpses of the region's history.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

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.

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

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

A Romanesque sanctuary of calm amid the bustle of downtown Los Angeles.

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

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

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

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

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

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