Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
From the instant it opened in September 2015, the Broad (rhymes with 'road') became a must-visit for contemporary-art fans. It houses the world-class…
Must-see attractions in Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
LA is unlike any other city, and this cathedral is unlike any other cathedral. Seat of the US's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese (some five million…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
A molten blend of steel, music and psychedelic architecture, this iconic concert venue is the home base of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but has also…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Until 1966 no LA building stood taller than the 1928 City Hall, which appeared in the Superman TV series and 1953 sci-fi thriller War of the Worlds. On…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
The highlight of LA Live, this museum's interactive exhibits define, differentiate and link musical genres. Spanning three levels, the rotating…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
MOCA's superlative art collection focuses mainly on works created from the 1940s to the present. There's no shortage of luminaries, among them Mark Rothko…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
The LA outpost of internationally acclaimed gallery Hauser & Wirth has art fiends in a flurry with its museum-standard exhibits of modern and contemporary…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Built on the site of LA’s original Chinatown, Union Station opened in 1939 as America’s last grand rail station. It’s a glamorous exercise in Mission…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Debuting in 1893, the Bradbury is one of the city's undisputed architectural jewels. Behind its robust Romanesque facade lies a whimsical galleried atrium…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
This gorgeous Spanish Gothic theater, with ornate stonework and stained glass, and grand, yet intricate murals by renowned theater interior designer…
El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
LA didn’t spring from the head of Hollywood directors; it was a full-blown community a good century before DW Griffith showed up. A short stroll northwest…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
South of Pershing Sq is one of the country's largest jewelry districts. Centered on Broadway and Hill St (between 6th and 7th Sts), the main currency here…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Although the spire-topped 73-story Wilshire Grand Tower is technically LA's tallest building by architectural height, the 1018ft US Bank Tower remains the…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
The first theater built by Sid Grauman of Chinese Theatre and Egyptian Theatre fame. While the top floors were designed by Albert Carey Martin Sr (co…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Dating back to 1911, the Palace is one of the city's oldest theaters. The facade is a curious fusion of early Renaissance Florentine architecture and pure…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Architect Claud Beelman's extraordinary 1929 Eastern Columbia Building is a masterpiece of art moderne architecture. Clad in turquoise-and-gold terracotta…
Caltrans District 7 Headquarters
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
OK, maybe Caltrans didn’t earn its $150-million digs based on performance, but that doesn’t change the fact that this floating steel-mesh-and-glass…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Designed by celebrated theater designer S Charles Lee, this 1931 jewel was the last major movie palace to be built in Downtown. A breathtaking swansong,…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Home to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, this 16-story Ferraro-designed classic dates back to 1964. While it isn't LA's biggest, tallest or…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Across the street from the Staples Center and LA Convention Center is this corporate entertainment hub, which includes the Grammy Museum and 7100-seat…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
This 1926 theater was built for vaudeville and has hosted such entertainers as Judy Garland, George Burns and Nat King Cole. A truly sumptuous place, its…
Japanese American National Museum
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
A great first stop in Little Tokyo, this is the country’s first museum dedicated to the Japanese immigrant experience. The 2nd floor is home to the…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
This museum offers snapshots of the Mexican–American experience in Los Angeles, from Spanish colonization in the late 18th century and the Mexican…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
MOCA showcases its big names and blockbuster exhibits at its main building on Grand Ave, freeing its original site in Little Tokyo to focus on more…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
LA’s first public park in 1866, Pershing Sq is now a postmodern concrete patch enlivened by public art, summer concerts and a holiday-season ice rink…
Italian American Museum of Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Aptly located inside Italian Hall – built in 1908 as a social hub for the area's Italian community – this small, interactive museum sheds light on the oft…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Walk north from El Pueblo and you'll breach the dragon gates. After being forced to make room for Union Station, the Chinese resettled a few blocks north…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
El Pueblo’s central, magnolia-shaded square is crowned by a pretty wrought-iron gazebo. Sleepy and a little sketchy during the week, it often turns into a…
América Tropical Interpretive Center
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Everyone from Hollywood stars to LA intellectuals attended the 1932 unveiling of América Tropical, a rooftop mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
The block-long, pedestrianized 'birthplace of Los Angeles' (circa 1781) may now be a festive Mexican marketplace with gaudy decorations and souvenir…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
The oldest surviving house in LA was built in 1818 by wealthy ranchero and one-time LA mayor Francisco José Avila. After subsequent lives as a boarding…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Downtown's '60s-era concert hall was home to the LA Philharmonic (until it moved to the acoustically superior Walt Disney Concert Hall) and frequent venue…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
This beaux-arts creation is Broadway’s biggest entertainment complex, seating close to 2500 people. The theater debuted in 1921 with a vaudeville show and…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Featuring two granite polygonal skyscrapers connected by a three-story atrium, this 1983 office complex is the work of renowned Chicago architecture firm…
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
The surrounding area got a nod of respectability when this institute moved into the former Santa Fe Freight Yard in 2001. It’s a progressive laboratory…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Across the LA River is LA’s largest artist colony, housed in a former brewery. Most lofts and studios are generally closed to the public except during the…
Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising is a private college with an international student body. Very much part of the nearby Fashion District's…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
A breathtaking loft space owned and operated by the artist himself. Reynolds specializes in mixed-media canvasses and sculpture, and uses anything and…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
South of Old Plaza are a number of historic buildings, including the 1870 home of Pio Pico, California’s last Mexican governor. It was the city’s first…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Dressed in their traditional charro suits, Mexican mariachi musicians have been descending on Boyle Heights' old-school zócalo (public square) since the…
