This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.

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

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

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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

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.

A black and white mural stands out from its psychedelic surroundings.

Authentic gondola hanging from the ceiling, notable mural in the back room.

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

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

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

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

The simple auditorium that launched a pop icon's career into the stratosphere.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.