Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
The world’s first talkie, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, premiered here in 1927. The first theater designed by celebrated architect S Charles Lee,…
Must-see attractions in Los Angeles
Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood & Westwood
One of the most popular corners of Rodeo Dr is this kitschy, cobbled outdoor mall, lined with mock-European facades and home to a small but exclusive…
Pasadena & the San Gabriel Valley
Operated by Caltech, JPL is NASA’s main center for robotic exploration of the solar system. It's about 7 miles north of the main Caltech campus. It’s best…
Hollywood
Life’s pretty strange and it’ll feel stranger still after you’ve visited Ripley’s, where exhibits range from the gross to the grotesque. If shrunken heads…
Pasadena & the San Gabriel Valley
Spanning some 150ft above and nearly 1500ft across the Arroyo Seco, this stunning bridge was the world's tallest concrete bridge when it was completed in…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
The US Bank Tower abuts the Bunker Hill Steps, a cheesy set-piece staircase (there's an escalator, too) that links 5th St with the Wells Fargo Center and…
African American Firefighter Museum
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Dedicated to the history of African-American firefighters, this humble museum has the usual assortment of vintage engines and uniforms, as well as an 1890…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Everything from free lunchtime yoga to music concerts and long days of lounging and people-watching takes place at this preened Downtown park, cascading…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Cut flowers at cut-rate prices are the lure here, where a few dollars gets you armloads of Hawaiian ginger or sweet roses, a potted plant or elegant…
Long Beach & San Pedro
This Cold War–era Soviet submarine is moored alongside the Queen Mary. As you scramble around, imagine how 78 crew shared 27 bunks and two bathrooms,…
Long Beach & San Pedro
If you enjoy clambering around old ships, visit this museum vessel that sailed the seven seas from 1945 to 1971. Self-guided tours take in the engine room…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Founded as La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Ángeles (Our Lady the Queen of the Angels Church) in 1781, and now affectionately known as la…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
MOCA Grand is dwarfed by the soaring California Plaza office towers. The outdoor water-court amphitheater is host to Grand Performances, which is one of…
Malibu & Pacific Palisades
The 31-room home where cowboy-turned-entertainer and humanitarian Will Rogers lived from 1928 until his untimely death in 1935 opens for tours. It's in…
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
Follow the red lanterns to the small 1890 Garnier Building, once the unofficial Chinatown ‘city hall'. Changing exhibits highlight various historical,…
Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood & Westwood
Rodeo Dr is home to Frank Lloyd Wright's 1953 commercial-residential creation Anderton Court. The complex features an angular ramp leading up and around a…
Los Feliz & Griffith Park
Just east of Travel Town is this group of local folks with a passion for scale-model locomotives. On Sunday afternoons they offer rides on their one…
Los Angeles
This stately garden in front of the California Science Center opened to the public in 1928 and today displays 145 varieties of plants.
Downtown Los Angeles & Boyle Heights
The city’s oldest fire station (1884) is now a one-room museum filled with dusty old fire-fighting equipment and photographs.
Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood & Westwood
Designed by Richard Meier, the Broad Art Center houses the UCLA visual-arts programs and an MFA student gallery.
Pasadena & the San Gabriel Valley
Gallery on the Art Center College of Design campus.
Venice, Marina Del Rey & Playa del Rey
Most boats, including party fishing boats and winter whale-watching boats, leave from this kitschy strip of candy-colored cottages filled with tacky gift…
Los Angeles
The Dunbar was a luxury hotel built in 1928 in this predominantly African-American neighborhood, at a time when segregation barred African-Americans from…
Long Beach & San Pedro
Shrieking gulls and excited children animate this aging shopping district filled with trinket stores (which you can safely skip) en route to copious meals…
Pasadena & the San Gabriel Valley
The theater where Mia and Seb went to the movies in La La Land has been closed since 2007 (talk about movie magic!), but locals remain nostalgic for this…
Hollywood
The last remaining Victorian home on Hollywood Blvd, built in 1903, and the former site of Miss Janes’ School, which was attended by the children of old…
Charles Greene's Former Private Residence
Pasadena & the San Gabriel Valley
This is the former home of one of Pasadena's great architects, whose works include the Gamble House, designed with his brother Henry.
Los Angeles
This park sits at the southern end of Leimert Park, though its appeal is diminished by the constant swirl of traffic on busy Crenshaw Blvd to the west.
Pasadena & the San Gabriel Valley
Pasadena's 1927 city hall is on the National Register of Historic Places and a prime example of California Mediterranean-style architecture.
Long Beach & San Pedro
Among the 'residents' of this cemetery is Charles Bukowski, buried in plot number 875 of the Ocean View section.
West Hollywood & Mid-City
The future home of the museum of the Oscars is scheduled to open in late 2019.
