Attractions

The Hollywood Museum
The Hollywood Museum is located in the Max Factor Building, which is famous all over the world thanks to Max Factor, the person, who was skillful in make-up for movies and could really make wonders. His work …
Maritime Museum
The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is located on the main channel in Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro, California, in the former Municipal Ferry Terminal building. The ferry ceased after the Vincent Thomas Bridge …
Skirball Cultural Center
The Skirball Cultural Center is an educational institution in Los Angeles, California devoted to sustaining Jewish heritage and American democratic ideals. Open to the public since 1996, the Skirball Cultural …
Angelino Heights
Angelino Heights is a small quarter within the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California. It is most notable for its impressive well-kept Victorian-era residences, although these are small in number. It …
Vasquez Rocks
Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 905-acre (3 km²) northern Los Angeles County, California, USA park acquired by the Los Angeles County government in the 1970s. It is in the Agua Dulce vicinity between …
Little Tokyo
Little Tokyo, also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnic Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles and one of only three official Japantowns in the United States, all three of which …
Chinatown in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Chinatown, near the Broadway station in the North in the Union, is among the destinations in Los Angeles, visitors usually head. Union Station’s “last great railway stations” in …
Bradbury Building
The building was commissioned by Lewis L. Bradbury (November 6, 1823–July 15, 1892), for whom it is named. Bradbury was a mining millionaire – he owned a mine named Tajo in Sinaloa, Mexico – who became a …
Angelus Temple
Angelus Temple was the central house of worship of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California.
The Shrine Auditorium
The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue, in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners.
Olvera Street
Olvera Street is in the oldest part of Downtown Los Angeles, California, and is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. Many Latinos refer to it as “La Placita Olvera.” Circa 1911 it …
Six Flags Magic Mountains
Six Flags Magic Mountain is a theme park located in Valencia, California north of Los Angeles. It opened on Memorial Day weekend on May 29, 1971, as Magic Mountain, by the Newhall Land and Farming Company. In …
Pacific Park
Pacific Park is an oceanfront amusement park located in Santa Monica, California. The park (located on the Santa Monica Pier) looks directly out on the Pacific Ocean, in the direction of Catalina Island. There …
Craft and Folk Art Museum
The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), founded as the popular omelette café The Egg and The Eye, has been an energetic hub of global culture and progressive thought in Los Angeles, California since …
California African American Museum
The California African American Museum (CAAM) is a museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near …
Japanese American National Museum
The Japanese American National Museum opened its doors in 1992. The museum is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown Los Angeles, California. It is devoted to preserving the history and culture of …
Pueblo de Los Angeles
The historic district of LA, with the oldest buildings. It’s home to Olvera Street, the oldest street in LA, celebrating the city’s Spanish – Mexican past with food and shops.
Capitol Records Building
The Capitol Records Building, also known as the Capitol Records Tower, Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, located in Hollywood, Los Angeles is a thirteen-story tower designed by Welton …
Randy’s Donuts
Randy’s Donuts is a landmark building in Inglewood, California, near Los Angeles International Airport, in a style that dates to a period in the early 20th century that saw a proliferation of programmatic …
Watts Towers
The Watts Towers or Towers of Simon Rodia in the Watts district of Los Angeles, California, is a collection of 17 interconnected structures, two of which reach heights of over 99 feet (30 m). The Towers were …
Theme Building
The Theme Building is a landmark structure at the Los Angeles International Airport within the Westchester neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles. It opened in 1961 and is an example of the Mid-Century …
Dockweiler Beach
Dockweiler Beach is a three-mile-long section of the Los Angeles shoreline that’s seldom crowded. A west-facing beach, Dockweiler is the only place in Los Angeles County where you can have a bonfire and it has the …
Paradise Cove Beach
This small beach, located north of Malibu just off Highway 1 is framed by bluffs and look out on boats moored nearby. Don’t be surprised if it looks familiar. Television programs The OC, Baywatch, and The …
Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Beach may well be the prototype for the quintessential Los Angeles beach. A Beach Boys’ hangout in their early days and the birthplace of beach volleyball, this west-facing urban beach attracts a …
Zuma Beach
With white sand, clean water, and plenty of room, Zuma Beach is a perennial favorite with residents and visitors alike. This south-facing beach attracts lots of visitors on summer weekends, but Zuma Beach is …
Santa Monica Beach
Situated beneath the palisades and downtown Santa Monica, Santa Monica State Beach runs north of the Santa Monica Pier. This southwest-facing beach is home to Pacific Park amusement park and is near the Third …
Redondo State Beach
Redondo Beach is both a town and a stretch of oceanfront sand. This profile refers to the stretch of sand that’s called Redondo State Beach. This urban beach faces west, with good views of the Palos Verdes …
Petersen Automotive Museum
The Petersen Automotive Museum is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. One of the world’s largest automotive museums, the Petersen Automotive Museum …
Huntington Library
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is an educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington in San Marino, in the San Rafael Hills near Pasadena, California in …
Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles City Hall completed in 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California, and houses the mayor’s office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City …
Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) system serves the residents of Los Angeles, California, United States. With over 6 million volumes, LAPL is one of the largest publicly funded library systems in the …
Los Angeles Music Center
The Music Center (officially named the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Music Center is home …
US Bank Tower
U.S. Bank Tower, formerly Library Tower and First Interstate Bank World Center, is a 310.3 m (1,018 ft) skyscraper at 633 West Fifth Street in downtown Los Angeles, California.
Convention Center
The Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC) is a convention center in the southwest portion of downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show and Anime Expo and is …
Staples Center
Staples Center is a multi-purpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex along Figueroa Street. Opening on …
MacArthur Park
MacArthur Park (formerly Westlake Park) is a park in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, named after General Douglas MacArthur and designated city of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural …
Echo Park
Echo Park is a hilly neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and southeast of Hollywood.
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Garden
The Los Angeles Zoo (formally the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens), is a 113-acre (46 ha) zoo founded in 1966 and located in Los Angeles, California. The City of Los Angeles owns the entire zoo, its land …
Hollywood Bowl Museum
The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheater in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, the United States that is used primarily for music performances. It has a seating capacity of 17,376.
Autry National Center
The Autry National Center of the American West is an intercultural center and museum in Los Angeles, California that celebrates the diversity and history of the American West through three important …
Heritage Square Museum
Heritage Square Museum is a living history museum located in the Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, that tells the story of the development of Southern California through architecture. …
Travel Town Museum
Travel Town Museum is a transport museum within Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California. Travel Town was dedicated on December 14, 1952. There is no charge for museum admission or parking. It is open daily …
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opened in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, the USA in 1913 as the Museum of History, Science, and Art. The moving force behind it was a museum association …
Museum of Tolerance
The Museum of Tolerance (MOT), a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, California, USA, with an associated museum and professional development multi-media training facility in New York City, is designed to examine …
Getty Center
The Getty Center, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, is a campus for cultural institutions founded by oilman J. Paul Getty. The $1.3 billion centers, which opened on December 16, 1997, are also well known …
California Science Center
The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Billed as the West Coast’s largest hands-on science center, the …
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the …
The Griffith Observatory
Griffith Observatory is an icon of Los Angeles, a national leader in public astronomy, a beloved civic gathering place, and one of southern California’s most popular attractions. The Observatory is located on …
The La Brea Tar Pits Museum
The La Brea Tar Pits (or Rancho La Brea Tar Pits) are a cluster of tar pits around which Hancock Park was formed, in the urban heart of Los Angeles. Asphaltum or tar (brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the …