Places norabahr5 Wants to Go

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

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.

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

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

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

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

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

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

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

These artworks take you traveling to mythical medieval Europe, the politicized grape fields of 1960s California, and deep below sea level.

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

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

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

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

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.