Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

A tribute to long time Venice Beach resident, artist and actor Dennis Hopper.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

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

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

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

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

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

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.