Call Girls, Crackheads and Charlie Chaplin

When you think of a historic hotel, you generally think chandeliers, ballrooms, butlers. But The Rose Hotel, Venice, California's most storied digs, are more in line with the beach enclave's rock and roll sideshow past. It's been around since Abbot Kinney founded this Italian Renaissance-inspired development (in fact, it was his party pad), and it's seen an awful lot ever since. Find out how you can sleep with the ghosts of Jim Morrison, Dennis Hopper, the Beats, the Crips and now a new generation of boho party people. Read more at Bloomberg.