Visitors to L.A. should know that going to Hollywood doesn't mean you get to be in a movie or meet a movie star or be anywhere near the set of a movie. You don't. If that's what you're looking for you'll be sorely disappointed. The closest you'll get is stepping on the names of movie stars on the Hollywood Blvd. "Walk of Stars" or shaking hands with a dude dressed like Shrek at Mann's Chinese Theater.
The coolest stuff to do in Los Angeles has less to do with the movies and more to do with the city's artsier, grittier, and quirkier sides. Check out the LACMA (Los Angeles County Musuem of Art), the Getty Center, or the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Get yourself invited to the Magician's Castle if you can.
Disneyland is always a blast though.
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| One of Los Angeles’s true architectural masterpieces also doubles as an impressive museum. The modernist J. Paul Getty Center, designed by architect Richard Meier and constructed from 16,000 tons of beige travertine stone, sits on a hilltop in the Santa Monica Mountains. From this vantage point, surrounded by the warm, tranquil architecture, visitors can look out on the Pacific Ocean, the San... |
| La Brea Tar Pits – If the hustle and bustle of modern Los Angeles gets a little overwhelming, check out the La Brea Tar Pits, where you can experience L.A. as it was 10,000 years ago. These genuine tar pits, in the center of the city, have been trapping creatures and preserving them in asphaltic ooze for eons. The adjoining Page Museum has the most extensive collection of Ice Age plants and... |
| Stepping into this curious museum is like going through Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole: reality seems suddenly unfamiliar. The disparate collection of arcane historical figures and biological and technological artifacts, all with deadpan descriptions, dares you to take it seriously. Are you supposed to laugh at the exhibits? Are you missing something? How is this thing funded? In the end it doesn’t... |
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