Tourist attractions Beverly Hills

This sprawling six-building complex, generally referred to by the acronym LACMA, is the nation's largest art museum west of Chicago. Housing a broad collection ranging from Egyptian and pre-Columbian art to contemporary works, LACMA is also the city'..

Perched on a north-south ridge high above the San Diego Freeway, a gleaming cluster of low-lying buildings holds one of the nation's most extensive facilities for the study, conservation and presentation of visual art. Collections include French deco..

Part fully functioning film and television studio, part live-entertainment complex and amusement park, 420-acre Universal Studios Hollywood sprawls across and down a hillside overlooking the San Fernando Valley, 3mi northwest of Hollywood Boulevard. ..

Sequestered in a lushly landscaped 65-acre canyon, this re-creation of a 1C BC Roman villa overlooks the Pacific. A replica of a villa in Herculaneum buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the building was erected in 1974 and now is a..

This renowned street is a three-block stretch of mostly two- and three-story buildings north of Wilshire Boulevard. Boutiques and clothiers, jewelers, antique dealers and art galleries cater to expensive tastes. On the northeast corner of Wilshire an..

Dedicated in 1993, this museum of ideas has two principal goals: raising awareness of racism and prejudice in American life, and exploring atrocities against humanity throughout history, with primary emphasis on the Holocaust.More a high-technology m..

Anchoring the avenue's western end near Beverly Hills, the massive, seven-story building (1975, Cesar Pelli) sheathed in cobalt-blue glass quickly acquired the local nickname "The Blue Whale." In 1988, its hexagonal green glass annex, known..

Named for a former UCLA chancellor who promoted the idea of art in a natural setting, this tree-shaded, five-acre garden (1967) showcases more than 70 works by such leading sculptors as Rodin, Matisse, Hepworth, Moore, Calder and Noguchi. At the corn..

Visitors to this museum on the site of the famous Rancho La Brea Tar Pits can learn about Los Angeles as it was between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, when animals such as saber-toothed cats and mammoths roamed the region. Fund..

An ornate fantasy of chinoiserie, the theater was commissioned by showman Sid Grauman. Opened in 1927 with a gala premiere for Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings, the theater has hosted more premieres than any other Holliwood theater, a tradition that ..

An ornate fantasy of chinoiserie, the theater (1926, Meyer & Holler) was commissioned by showman Sid Grauman$; many locals still call it Grauman's Chinese, though it is now owned by the Mann Theatres chain. Opened in 1927 with a gala premiere for Cec..

Built in the wake of worldwide excitement over the discovery of King Tut's tomb, this faux-Egyptian movie palace (1922, Meyer and Holler) opened to tremendous fanfare when Sid Grauman chose it to stage the world's first Hollywood premiere. Fully rest..

Occupying a broad hollow of the Santa Monica Mountains and surrounded by 120 acres of greenery, the largest natural amphitheater in the world is a popular concert site and summer home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. ..

Housed in a hangar at the first site if Donald Douglas Aircraft Co., this museum was closed temporarily in 2002 due to economic concerns. A $2 million capital campaign was undertaken to help re-open the doors. The collection includes 45 vintage aircr..

Housed in an eye-catching new structure overlooking the San Diego Freeway, the West Coast's preeminent Jewish cultural center and museum has taken selections from its vast repository of artifacts and art objects and arranged them into an impressive p..

Hugging the top of the hill, the tile, wood and stucco house (1921) was the first Frank Lloyd Wright building in Los Angeles. Interior and exterior ornamentation was inspired by hollyhocks, art patron Aline Barnsdall's favorite flower. It underwent a..

Recognizing the growing city's need for suburban shopping accessible by automobile, department-store owner John G. Bullock and his partner, P.G. Winnett, decided to build a branch of the downtown retail store on a barren stretch of Wilshire west of L..

From a promontory on the south slope of 1,625ft Mt. Hollywood, Griffith Park's highest peak, this Art Deco observatory (1935) was donated by Col. Griffith at a cost of $255,780. With its central 84ft copper planetarium dome and two smaller flanking d..

This broad, varied collection of more than 35 million specimens and artifacts from the fields of life sciences, earth sciences and history ranks third in size in the US, after the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the National M..

One of the largest urban parks in the US, rugged Griffith Park straddles some 4,103 acres of the Santa Monica Mountains, 5mi northwest of downtown Los Angeles and immediately northeast of Hollywood.The majority of the land was donated by Griffith J. ..