Los Angeles Attractions
Things to do in Los Angeles
The Commons social network at HelloLosAngeles.com is packed with family-friendly attractions including amusement parks, beaches, museums, entertainment and shopping.
Enjoy a day aboard a cruise ship at Newport Landing where you might catch a glimpse of giant blue whiles along the way. Or, get into the style of things at the FIDM Museum where you can view a large collection of costumes from some of your favorite film stars throughout the years. Next, head over to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and browse a collection of art from around the world including Renaissance, Impressionism, Islamic and Egyptian works.
For a bird’s eye view of the sunset and a fun filled day of roller coasters, boardwalk games and fantastic fair foods head out the Santa Monica Pier. There you can climb aboard the 1922 carousel with 44 hand-carved horses. But before you hit the beach, stop by the Getty Villa in Malibu boasting Roman, Green and Etruscan antiquities. Also, be sure to stop by LA’s Santee Alley for a treasure trove of street market style shopping at more than 150 vendor stalls with products from your favorite designers and their respective knock off brands.
Of course, no visit to Los Angeles would be complete without a trip to the happiest place on Earth—Disneyland. Must see Disneyland adventures include the Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Tours, Space Mountain, Montezuma’s Revenge and of course, It’s A Small World. Located just across the street from, visit Disneyland’s California Adventure where they’ve recently added a new ride, Ariel’s Undersea Adventure featuring the Little Mermaid herself.
L.A.'s pop music scene now has a mighty museum in L.A. Live’s Grammy Museum. It misses little on the landscape of memorable sound.
Los Angeles museums have a new member of the clan: LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes. The new museum gives downtown L.A. a nice boost with some serious exhibits that add context and depth to the sites around Olvera Street and Union Station.
Even if you are not religious, you will become a devotee of art and architecture when you visit the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angel.
Summer in Anaheim is just getting started with a treasure chest of new attractions making their debut in the summer of 2011.
New Disneyland rides include "Little Mermaid, Ariel’s Undersea Adventure."
You’ll have to pinch yourself to remember you are not in Mexico, or Morocco or the Ladies Market in Hong Kong. Santee Alley is LA’s very own homage to the street market of old where merchandise piles high in ramshackle stalls along skinning outdoor corridors and young men with smoky slits for eyes ask you nefariously if you want to buy some bootlegged DVDs.
Stay current on culture at no cost by scheduling visits to Los Angeles museums on free days.
The $125 million CSUN Performing Arts Center is a new jewel on the tapestry of L.A. A bold statement in glass on a hill overlooking the California State University at Northridge campus draws the stars both on stage and in the seats.
Six Flags Magic Mountain, a mainstay of Los Angeles attractions, is celebrating 40 years of thrill ride innovation this summer by launching three new roller coaster experiences.
If you are looking for a fun filled night of things to do at Universal Studios Hollywood, find them next door at Universal CityWalk.
Ok, admit it. You are interested in this Los Angeles attraction because you are just a little curious about how people die, what serial killers think about and what happens during a state-sponsored electrocution. But worry not. Now there's a Los Angeles attraction - actually a Los Angeles museum - dedicated to those exact thoughts. The Museum of Death in Hollywood puts the morbid and taboo at center stage with a bountiful collection of skulls, funeral items, killing devices and execution tools.
Those looking for Holocaust history and facts can turn to a new museum that opened this winter in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Holocaust Museum presents Holocaust history and facts in an easy to wander fashion, with easy to access displays that range from highly technical interactive exhibits to simple showcases of shoes, glasses, rags and ruins from what are possibly the darkest years of modern history.
The California Science Center offers a day of family fun filled with educational exhibits, live demonstrations and interactive learning stations with an abundance of science discovery at every turn.
If you are looking for things to do in Downtown Los Angeles, one of the top things to do is visit a museum. But because you are in Oscar Land, forget the dinosaurs and the stuffed mountain cats and head to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) Museum for a gawk at what they wore.
Clark Library UCLA remains a hidden jewel of literature, culture and history in Los Angeles.
Scrolling for Los Angeles activities, you will inevitably hit L.A. Live, downtown Los Angeles’s daring new venue for high-profile dining, night clubs, sports, entertainment and hospitality -- a tight, electrified convention center campus.
Few beach towns in all of Southern California offer so many affordable options for heading out to sea, or at least taking a spin around a harbor, as Redondo Beach. And RB’s King Harbor is nearly as popular with sea creatures as with weekenders, so sea lions, dolphins and whales can all be seen from boats that range from kayaks to the 144-passenger
Voyager.
Starline Tours – those topless truck/vans that scope the avenues and alleyways of Hollywood for faces and traces of celebrity residents and their homes -- has hit the beach recently with a new tour that takes folks from the streets of Santa Monica to the views of Malibu.
In the mid-1980s, the fate of some of the largest mammals on Earth was in real question. For most species of whales now, however, the future looks much brighter, and adventures like Newport Landing Whale Watching are helping to promote the love of these awesome creatures.
Los Angeles attractions are not always about fun, entertainment and amusement. L.A. also awes for its art, architecture and creative eye candy. Here’s HelloMetro’s guide to top L.A. attractions.
Got time before a concert at the Hollywood Bowl? Spend it at the Hollywood Bowl Museum. Visitors to the Hollywood Bowl may park temporarily for free until 4:30 p.m. to purchase tickets, shop at the Hollywood Bowl Store, and explore the grounds. And they can also explore the Edmund D. Edelman Hollywood Bowl Museum until show time.
There is a lot more you don’t know that you stand to learn if you take a very cool and informative experiential tour of Los Angeles with LA Active Adventures.
The Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) is a cultural leader in contemporary design, offering a broad range of fine art exhibitions including paintings, furniture, sculptures, architectural glass and a collection of southern California themed landscape works.
L.A. Zoo's new Elephants of Asia exhibit shows the heart-warming and hard truths about elephants in Asia.
Probably the oddest, most deftly arranged, yet unsung museum in Los Angeles today is the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Blink and you will miss this Los Angeles museum in its unassuming and always closed-looking spot on Venice Blvd. This Los Angeles attraction is not near anything in particular – a Thai restaurant next door and maybe some furniture stores down the street. But inside is a veritable world of wonder.
Those who may want to browse and munch along L.A.’s deeply historic past may have to hurry up. Olvera Street, a staple attraction of L.A. lore that has been around since, well, technically, the 1780s, may be disappearing under the flood of the current economic melt down.
Balloon-tire, one-speed cruiser bikes are the best way to cruise the Strand along L.A.’s South Bay beaches. The Strand bike path follows the ocean north from Redondo Beach to Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and if you’re fit and ambitious, far beyond.
The greater Los Angeles area offers many family-friendly attractions to beat the summer heat, like Knott’s Soak City, Orange County, where splashing, tanning and waterslides provide just that.
The Music Center serves as the premier performing arts center of Los Angeles County and is one of the three largest and most highly regarded centers in the United States.
Wine Tasting Fridays at Barnsdall Park bring a little culture, a little community and a lot of LA personality in the shadow of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House.
Many towns with a marina and pier can be found along the Southern California coast, but none are quite like Redondo Beach. It isn’t pretentious like Newport Beach or ultra-hip like Venice. It’s just a beach town where you can take the family to enjoy a seafood meal at a view restaurant and take your pick of numerous activities, with none of them expensive and many of them free. Redondo is best described as authentic, affordable and family-friendly.
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