Venice

Venice California, known mostly as Venice Beach, is a district of Los Angeles, and its' colorful Boardwalk is a great scene: free, fun, and funky-- making the "short list" of things to do in Los Angeles. Venice was the creation and dream of one man, Abbott Kinney. Kinney was an investor who built a sort of recreation of Venice, Italy including a massive systems of canals and a huge entertainment complex that opened in 1905 and became very popular. The overly ambitious canals were   More...