Venice Beach and Santa Monica Pier are around 20 mins away from downtown Los Angeles and both offer breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean. Santa Monica Pier is located in the city of Santa ...

which sits at the end of the pier. – Sharael Kolberg, Contributor, Travel Developed in the early 20th century, Venice Beach is modeled – canals and all – after its namesake city in Italy.

Thankfully, with Venice taking the brunt of tourism over the years, another European city famed for its canals has managed to remain relatively under the radar and has maintained its natural beauty.

Muscle Beach in Santa Monica sparked America’s fitness craze in the 1930s, shaping strength culture until its 1950s end and ...

Venice Keeps Flooding. Here’s How an Engineer Would Solve It. Venice spent about $6 billion on a mobile floodgate system that can block high tides from inundating the city.

Venice Beach tops many beachgoers' lists for its ... Santa Monica's three-mile-long sandy shore is split by the city's historic pier—home to amusement park rides, a Ferris wheel, a vintage ...

Venice, with its surrounding lagoon, is unique. In this city on the water, where the idea of terra firma is meaningless, a thousand years has seen the creation of an extraordinary museum of ...