Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The last of its kind in the country.

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

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

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

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

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

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

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

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

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

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 real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

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

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

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

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.