The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

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

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

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Grab a latte at the birthplace of modern American skateboarding.

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

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.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.