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Read MoreBike Rentals: Blazing Saddles
Nothing fancy but a central location to rent bikes for riding along the beach. They do have guided tours with headsets in the helmets if you would like a local to give you some history and anecdotes about Santa Monica...
Read MoreCathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
Located downtown, within walking distance of the Music Center, Disney Concert Hall and MoCA, this soaring contemporary space designed by Spanish architect José Rafael Moneo, with monumental bronze doors by L.A. sculptor Robert Graham, is the first Roman Catholic cathedral...
Read MoreClasses: Aziam Yoga
There are tons of yoga studio in wellness-obsessed Los Angeles, but a great, centrally located one is Aziam at the Brentwood Country Mart. All the instructors are great but try to get a class with Tom Morley.
Read MoreGeffen Playhouse
LA is famously devoid of good theater, but one notable exception is the Geffen Playhouse, which puts on five plays per season (unsurprisingly, casts are usually star-studded). Annette Bening, Rita Wilson and Martin Short have performed here.
Read MoreGetty Villa
The Getty Villa, about ten miles away in Malibu—reopened in 2006 after nine years of renovation. Here you’ll see the re-created Roman Villa dei Papiri (buried instantly when Mount Vesuvius erupted), gardens and all; galleries inside hold Greek, Roman and...
Read MoreGrauman’s Chinese Theatre
The most famous movie theater in the city, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre is known for the cement handprints and footprints and as the site of many major studio premieres. In September 2013, it opened as the Chinese IMAX, one of the...
Read MoreGreek Theatre
Al fresco performances occur regularly at this 5,700-seat outdoor venue. James Taylor, Bob Dylan, and Dolly Parton have all graced the stage at the lively amphitheater.
Read MoreHammer Museum
Founded in 1990 by Dr. Armand Hammer and acquired by UCLA in 1994, the Hammer Museum boasts an art collection that includes pieces from contemporary Los Angeles-based artists, Renaissance drawings and an extraordinary compendium by French satirist Honoré Daumier. The...
Read MoreHiking: Palos Verdes Peninsula
About 40 minutes from downtown L.A. is the Palos Verdes Peninsula, with coastal botanic gardens and miles of hiking trails, including some ideal for families, bird watchers and wildflower aficionados. For active travelers who want to combine sightseeing with a...
Read MoreHiking: Topanga State Park
Make time for this state park in the Santa Monica Mountains with 36 miles of trails that offer views of the Pacific Ocean. The park is the world’s largest wildland within the confines of a major city and features numerous...
Read MoreHiking: Will Rogers State Historic Park
Purchased by Will Rogers in the 1920’s, this 186-acre property passed to the State of California when Rogers and his wife died. The state park still features his 31-room ranch house, and offers horseback-riding lessons and hiking trails for visitors...
Read MoreHit the Beach in Malibu
The beaches of Venice and Santa Monica are nice for biking or walking, but pockets can still be a bit seedy, so if you’re craving actual, towel-on-the-sand beach time, head to Malibu. Surfrider Beach (23050 Pacific Coast Highway) has built-in...
Read MoreHollywood Bowl
Much larger than the Greek Theater, the Hollywood Bowl opened in 1922 and seats nearly 18,000. Concerts run regularly, and the view of the Hollywood Hills and the Hollywood sign in the background is a special treat. The live album...
Read MoreHuntington
Wear your walking shoes. The Italianate mansion and gardens of railroad magnate Henry Huntington are set on 120 acres in exquisite San Marino, just south of Pasadena. Henry and his wife, Arabella (formerly his aunt), were big collectors—of rare books...
Exterior Veiw - Indagare Tours: Personalized Hikes , Los Angeles, CaliforniaRead MoreIndagare Tours: Personalized Hikes
For active travelers who want to combine sightseeing with a work out, we can arrange for a guide to take you on a four-hour guided hike through some of the city’s iconic destinations such as the Hollywood Hills, Griffith Park,...
Read MoreIndagare Tours: See the Studios
Though there are a half dozen studios in Los Angeles which offer some kind of tour, only Universal Studios and Warner Bros. still have major back lots (outdoor sets) so theirs are the best in the city. Universal and Warner...
Read MoreIndagare Tours: Universal Studios
Los Angeles owes much of its glory to its movie making culture, and there’s no better or more entertaining way to get a sense of it than visiting Universal Studios, which contains an amusement park and a working studio where...
Read MoreIndoor Skydiving
For those who want the thrill of skydiving without the real danger, there is an indoor simulated experience at Universal Studios City Walk. Just like an actual dive, you go through a briefing and are fitted in skydiving gear before...
Read MoreJ. Paul Getty Center
The Westside’s very own architectural landmark is the Richard Meier–designed, travertine-clad Getty Center campus, atop a 110-acre hillside in Brentwood. It’s the home of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which administers the Getty Research and Conservation Institutes, the Getty Foundation,...
Read MoreLA County Museum of Art
LACMA’s extensive collection ranges from its noted Islamic, Japanese and Korean holdings to European masterworks by Rembrandt, La Tour and Chardin to such contemporary canvases as David Hockney’s Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio. The multi-building complex underwent a...
Read MoreMuseum of Contemporary Art (MoCA)
In the 1980s, as this striking building, designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, was going up downtown, Frank Gehry was creating a temporary exhibition space in a warehouse and a police-car garage in nearby Little Tokyo. The “Temporary Contemporary” still...
Read MoreNorton Simon Museum
This often-overlooked gem in Pasadena houses Asian, European and American art, including tons of Degas paintings and sculptures. Frank Gehry renovated the interiors from 1996 to 1999, adding the stunning Southeast Asian and Indian galleries of red sandstone. The sculpture...
Read MorePetersen Automotive Museum
Car buffs and anyone who loves history should make a visit to this temple to the automobile. With more than 150 classic cars and exhibitions that highlight such topics as famous cars from Hollywood movies, there are vehicles for everyone...
Read MoreRonald Reagan Presidential Library
American history buffs should make the drive to Simi Valley, about an hour northwest of Beverly Hills, to the Reagan Library. One of the largest presidential libraries, Reagan Library holds millions of documents, films papers and photographs and displays a...
Read MoreStahl House
It was Julius Shulman’s 1960 photograph of this cantilevered mid-century modern home in the Hollywood Hills, with two ladies perched in a corner of the living room, that made it, arguably, the most famous of the Case Study homes. Pierre...
Read MoreThe Groundlings
The Groundlings improv theater is a great evening activity for adults and families. A Los Angeles institution, the theater and school has been a training ground for comedians for more than three decades and really provides a look at the...
Read MoreTrapeze School Los Angeles
Circus lovers and wannabe acrobats can now give the flying trapeze a try. The Trapeze School of New York started at Chelsea Piers but has found its way to the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles. Every day in the...
Read MoreWalt Disney Concert Hall
Many feel that this Frank Gehry wonder in the heart of downtown is “L.A.’s Bilbao”—a spectacular stainless-steel structure of multiple curving façades, on a par with the architect’s acclaimed Guggenheim Bilbao. The Douglas Fir–paneled interior is also worth seeing; unfortunately,...
Read MoreWarner Bros. Studio
Warner Bros. Studio is one of only a half dozen working studios in LA where you can tour the movie lot, and many consider it the best studio visit in town, though it is much less well known than Universal,...
