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The Ahmanson Theatre, located at The Music Center, is where we showcase the plays and musicals that everyone has been talking about or will be talking about. It’s where we produce and present pre-Broadway runs as well as the best of Broadway and the West End, turning a night at the theatre into a true event.

Often called Los Angeles' first suburb, the hilltop residential area of Angelino Heights lies two miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, near the communities of Echo Park and Silver Lake. The area was planned as a respectable, genteel Victorian neighborhood for Los Angeles' late 19th century upper-middle class.

With LA’s largest collection of shops and restaurants under one magnificent skylight, the new Beverly Center reflects the diverse styles and tastes of Los Angeles and its many visitors.

BMO Stadium, formerly Banc of California Stadium, is a soccer-specific stadium in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of Major League Soccer's Los Angeles FC and the National Women's Soccer League's Angel City FC.

The Bronson Caves are one of the most off-beat, interesting, and unique attractions inside Griffith Park — and they also happen to be one of the easiest to access AND a pretty solid place to get a view of the Hollywood Sign, too.

Cabrillo Beach is a historic public beach located in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. It is named after Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail up the California coast. Cabrillo has two separate beach areas.

This child-friendly Exposition Park museum features permanent exhibitions that explore life sciences, human innovation and powered flight. But there’s very little question what the real attraction is here: the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which was very pubicly paraded through L.A. over three days and three nights to reach its temporary home at the Samuel Oschin Pavilion. A permanent structure that will display the ship upright is in the works—which means Endeavour will only be on view in its current location until the end of 2023.

Standing in the midst of downtown Los Angeles, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels serves the total Archdiocese of over 5 million Catholics. As the heart of all 287 Parish Churches and communities, it is the place where the Archbishop celebrates the major Liturgies of the year with clergy, religious and laity.

"Citadel Outlets is Los Angeles’ only outlet shopping center, housing more than 130 top name brand stores and restaurants. Located just 10 minutes south of downtown LA, 25 minutes north of Anaheim and 20 minutes from the San Gabriel Valley, the 700,000 sq. ft. center features an array of retail stores for shoppers to experience.

Los Angeles City Hall is the seat of government for the city and an architectural marvel sporting an art deco design that's defined as modern American. Its towering splendour is a symbol for the city, as its image appears on much of the city's official documents, seals, badges, and postcards. The building is open to the public, so you can see this piece of history up close. Inside, you'll find alluring aesthetics as impressive as the outside, with hanging chandeliers and high ceilings. Most of the time visitors spend about an hour here.

Dockweiler State Beach is a beach in Los Angeles, California, with 3.75 miles of shoreline and a hang gliding practice and training area. Although a unit of the California state park system, it is managed by the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors.

Dodger Stadium is a baseball stadium in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers. Opened in 1962, it was constructed in less than three years at a cost of US$23 million.

Elysian Park is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California, United States. The city park, Elysian Park, and Dodger Stadium are within the neighborhood, as are an all-boys Catholic high school and an elementary school.

we invite you to explore our upcoming and past exhibitions. You can browse our Online Collections and Google Arts & Culture platforms anytime, or review content on the FIDM Museum Blog and YouTube channel. Please follow our social media accounts (Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter) for updates.

The GRAMMY Museum is a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating and exploring music from yesterday and today to inspire the music of tomorrow through exhibits, education, grants, preservation initiatives, and public programming. Paying tribute to our collective musical heritage, the Museum values and celebrates the dynamic connection in people’s diverse backgrounds, telling the stories that inspire us, and creative expression that leads change in our industry.

Operating on the ground floor of the iconic Homer Laughlin Building since 1917, this European-style food hall is a true Los Angeles mainstay. Even if you’re not personally in the market for food, you should definitely still come; people from all corners of L.A. mingle and mix among rows of spices, produce and vintage neon signage.

"Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles is one of thirteen worldwide locations of Hauser & Wirth, the international gallery devoted to contemporary art and modern masters. A family business with a global outlook, Hauser & Wirth opened its Los Angeles location in March 2016 in the heart of the burgeoning Downtown Los Angeles Arts District. Occupying a former flour mill, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles is a vibrant communal space that links art and architecture with a dynamic events program."

Heritage Square Museum is a family-friendly museum of historic architectural buildings that explores the settlement and development of Southern California from the late 1800s to early 1900s, offering guests of all ages the ability to explore the everyday lives of Southern Californians during the Victorian era of Los Angeles.

Hollywood United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church located at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles,

Holocaust Museum LA, formerly known as Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, is a museum located in Pan Pacific Park within the Fairfax district of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1961 by Holocaust survivors, Holocaust Museum LA is the oldest museum of its kind in the United States.

Overlooking the Pacific in San Pedro, inside Angels Gate Park, is a 12-foot tall, 17-ton gift from South Korea that marked the U.S. Bicentennial. The Korean Friendship Bell is modeled after the Divine Bell of King Seongdeok, but incorporates imagery that celebrates the relationship between the U.S. and Korea. Step inside the pavilion for a close-up look and you'll notice the Goddess of Liberty arm-in-arm with a Korean spirit.

The La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years. Over many centuries, the bones of trapped animals have been preserved.

With roots dating to the 1880s, Little Tokyo is a major cultural and civic center for Japanese Americans living in Southern California. Little Tokyo is a Downtown L.A. area of about five city blocks, bounded on the west by Los Angeles Street, on the east by Alameda Street, on the south by 3rd Street, and on the north by 1st Street, including the block north of 1st and west of Alameda.

Designed by New York architect Bertram Goodhue, the original Central Library was built during the mid-1920s. It was the last project of Goodhue's career. He died suddenly in 1924, and his associate Carleton Winslow took over supervision of construction, bringing the building to completion in 1926.

The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is a non-profit maritime museum, located at Sixth Street at Harbor Boulevard in the community of San Pedro, in Los Angeles, California.

The Los Angeles National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the Sawtelle unincorporated community of the West Los Angeles neighborhood in Los Angeles County, California.

"The largest interactive medieval torture museum in the U.S. You will find yourself in torture chambers in the darkest times of history. You'll discover the world's most detailed collection of imprisonment and torture devices, instruments of slow death and execution. Welcome, if you're brave enough!"

San Fernando Rey de España was founded on September 8, 1797. This mission is organized around a large quadrangle, with a simple adobe church located in one corner. A Convento (the padre’s quarters and a guest house) branches off the quadrangle. The Convento has a stunning colonnade with 19 arches, bordering the full length of the building.

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States. Its collections include nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history.

A stunning showcase of functional fine art, where automotive history and engineering excellence converge in a breathtaking display. We invite you to experience the heart of our collection—over 250 American and European perfectly restored automobiles, along with a vast array of rare mechanical musical instruments and precious antique furniture.

The Peacock Theater is a music and theater venue in downtown Los Angeles, California, at L.A. Live. The theater auditorium seats 7,100 and holds one of the largest indoor stages in the United States.

The transformed Petersen Museum creates a renewed image for the museum capturing the art, experience, culture and heritage of the automobile, and becomes a worthy neighbor for the buildings of Museum Row on Los Angeles’ famed Miracle Mile.

People the world over know Rodeo Drive from Julia Roberts’s famous shopping spree in the film Pretty Woman. And they’ll probably have learned from the movie not many people can afford to buy from its dazzling array of high-end designers. Window-shopping, then, is the order of the day on this famous Beverly Hills street. Along Two Rodeo—the $200-million faux cobbled walkway—browsing tourists mingle with serious spenders. Just a hop away is Anderson Court, which is the only shopping mall designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The focal point of the iconic Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica Pier is bursting with fun (but crowded) things to do: it includes a Ferris wheel, aquarium, fairground games and cotton candy stands. On weekends when the weather’s warm, the stretch is busy with families, beach bums and the gym bunnies who do their public workouts at the original Muscle Beach, just to the south of the pier. In recent years, the Pier has played host to a number of outdoor film and music events, which tends to bring in a (slightly) trendier clientele to the boardwalk.

Sunset Boulevard is one of the most famous streets in Los Angeles. It's 22 miles long and stretches from Downtown to the Pacific Coast Highway intersection, passing through Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Bel Air.

Banning House, also known as the General Phineas Banning Residence Museum, is a historic Greek Revival-Victorian home in the Wilmington section of Los Angeles, California.

Originally built in 1909 for David B. Gamble, one of the heirs of the Procter & Gamble fortune, this elegant house remains one of the best examples of both the Arts and Crafts movement and Charles and Henry Greene’s masterful handiwork. Now open to the public as a National Historic Landmark, programming at the Gamble House is exceptional, with tours that focus on things like the art of glass or the details and joinery in the house.

What we now call the Getty Villa (itself worth a visit) was the decades-long Pacific Palisades home for the J. Paul Getty Trust’s huge art collection. But that all changed in 1997, when the Getty Center opened in Brentwood. It’s a truly distinctive building, a remarkable complex of travertine and white metal-clad pavilions. Inside you’ll find ornate French furniture, famous Impressionist pieces and a series of rotating exhibitions.

Bequeathed by railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington, this splendid library and art collection now makes for one of the most enjoyable attractions in the Los Angeles area. Between the library holdings, the art and the sublime outdoor spaces, there’s easily enough to see at this San Marino space to fill an entire afternoon—indeed, it’s definitely best taken at a leisurely pace rather than any sort of mad dash.

Airy book & record store offering new & used items in a multilevel space adorned with local art.

Miniature, mile-long train ride that circles the Travel Town Train Museum in Griffith Park.

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School (now San José State University).

Moving away from the silver screen, let’s give a quick mention to LA’s most beloved beach. Venice Beach is such an important part of Western culture, that since 1996 live visuals have been streamed online. It’s always summer at Venice Beach. Although be warned that the weather can be temperamental, so be sure to bring a jersey!

Inspired by Venice, Italy, magnate Abbot Kinney created a maze of canals, quaint pedestrian bridges and lushly landscaped footpaths over 100 years ago. Come explore this cozy neighborhood’s unique charms, just blocks from the Marina.

On an unassuming plot of land, spitting distance from the train tracks that run through the center of Watts, you'll find one of the most stunning and improbable works of public art anywhere in the United States. Seventeen sculptures rise like giant, inverted ice cream cones toward the sky. The openwork spires are embedded with shells, tiles, soda bottles, mirrors, shards of pottery and two grinding wheels. It remains an island of whimsy in the middle of an urban landscape.

Wildlife Learning Center (WLC) is a zoological park nestled in an old olive grove in San Fernando Valley, California, where visitors can appreciate and learn about animals from around the world. WLC was founded to provide public education in the life sciences, conservation, and our environment. WLC is dedicated to providing life-long care to more than 100 displaced, rescued, and zoo-born wild animals who call this shady, natural environment home.

Step into the enchanting world of holiday magic at The Soraya with Mannheim Steamroller’s electronic-infused tunes, the elegance of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the soulful jazz of Samara Joy. Experience the exhilarating Irish dance of Trinity Irish Dance Company and embrace the cultural traditions of Nochebuena. Join us for world-class performances that promise to make your holiday season truly magical.

Putting in the extra miles for your beach trip is well worth it: you’ll be rewarded with a clean, wide patch of sand and surf at Zuma. This Malibu beach can hold crowds with plenty of onsite parking (pay at the lot or for free along PCH) and lifeguards on duty. A popular spot on weekends and holidays for locals and destination beach-goer, visiting surfers can catch some waves at this sandy beach break. However, waves tend to close out, making this a perfect spot for boogie boarders and body surfers.