World-famous Disneyland features dining, shopping, entertainment and more than 55 adventures and attractions in seven magical theme lands. Mickey Mouse’s theme park celebrates its 50th anniversary with the new Buzz Lightyear Blasters ride, “Walt Disney’s Parade of Dreams” and a new fireworks extravaganza “Remember...Dreams Do Come True.”
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Hollywood comes alive as visitors stroll the Walk of Fame, which commemorates celebrities whose names appear on bronze stars on the sidewalk, or compare footprints of the stars in the courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theater.
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As the new epicentre of pop culture, Hollywood and Highland represents the dramatic revitalization of the entertainment, dining, retail, tourism and history that have defined the world's movie-making capital for almost a century. With 640,000 square feet (60,000 square metres) of one-of-a-kind shops, restaurants, broadcasting facilities, and cinemas – plus the world's only live broadcast performing arts theatre and the new home of the Academy Awards presentations – this spectacular destination pays homage to the movie industry's illustrious past and hails the new glory days of Hollywood.
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The 50-foot-high (15-metre) Hollywood Sign is one of Hollywood's most famous landmarks, stretching across the top of Mount Lee.
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The birthplace of Los Angeles over 200 years ago, Olvera Street is today a bustling cobblestone street filled with colourful shops selling Mexican wares and restaurants serving tasty Mexican cuisine.
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Rodeo Drive offers exciting, upscale shopping.

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Two popular beaches are those at Santa Monica and Malibu. Other outdoor activities in the area include horseback riding in Griffith Park and hiking on Mount Wilson.

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The last of the great pleasure piers dating back to the 1880s, Santa Monica Pier offers games, rides, a historic carousel, shops and cafés.
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There are a number of shopping centres just minutes from the Hotel, including the Beverly Center, the Century City Shopping Center and the Grove, featuring stores such as Bloomingdale's, Barneys New York, Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue.

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The Skirball Cultural Center celebrates the Jewish-American experience through a range of programs. The centre is doubling its size with a new hall and museum space now underway that will make it the largest Jewish cultural centre in North America. The galleries have also been redesigned.
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The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is set on 150 stunning acres (61 hectares). The sumptuous galleries and library showcase rare books, manuscripts and 18th to 20th-century art.
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Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica has shops, movies and restaurants.

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The Venice Beach Boardwalk features everything from the wild to the bizarre, a "must see" while in Los Angeles, with one-of-a-kind shops. High-speed in-line skaters, musicians and all walks of life enjoy this mile-long stretch on the Pacific Ocean.

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Fabled motion picture studios such as NBC, Universal and Warner Brothers offer a chance to see behind the scenes in VIP backlot tours.

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Founded by Gene Autry, the museum is devoted to preserving and interpreting the rich history and traditions of the American West. With one of the most comprehensive collections of western history and art, its seven permanent galleries and special exhibitions offer material gathered from the many cultures and events that have shaped the legacy of this vast region.
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The California Science Centre and is a family destination, offering hands-on exhibits that show how science relates to everyday life. Exhibit galleries cover life sciences, human innovation and more. The IMAX theatre shows large-format film on a screen seven storeys high. Admission to the exhibits is free.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum caught the world's attention when it opened five years ago. Richard Meier's architecture is stunning, and the hilltop site allows breathtaking city vistas. Paintings, decorative arts, photographs, manuscripts and drawings are divided among five galleries. You can see works by Rembrandt, Monet, Cézanne, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo; van Gogh's "Irises" is the top draw. Robert Irwin's Central Garden offers an intriguing resting place. Parking reservations are required.
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The grande dame of Los Angeles's Museum Row is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. More than 150,000 works from around the world are featured in the museum's permanent collection, including paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by masters such as Rembrandt, Monet and Matisse. Major exhibitions of ancient Roman artworks, bronze sculptures from southeast Asia, 16th-century texiles, decorative arts and photography attract 600,000 visitors each year. The museum hosts more than 30 special shows annually; recent exhibitions focused on Picasso, Chagall, David Hockney and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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The Museum of Tolerance actually focuses on issues of intolerance, both domestic civil rights and worldwide prejudice. It features artefacts from Auschwitz and personal items once belonging to Anne Frank; photographs and video testimonies by Holocaust survivors are particularly hard-hitting.
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Children and adults alike will be awed by the wonders at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Third in size only to the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History, the museum's collection includes 16 million specimens and artifacts. Highlights include dinosaur skeletons and more than 2,000 gems and minerals.
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The Norton Simon Museum celebrates a comprehensive new expansion and renovation, orchestrated by architect Frank O. Gehry. The stellar collection features masterworks from the Renaissance to the 20th century by van Gogh, Renoir, Manet, Degas, Goya, Picasso, Rembrandt and others. The sculpture garden has been completely re-landscaped and transformed.
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The Petersen Automotive Museum, recognized internationally for its innovative design, is dedicated to the interpretive study of the automobile and its influence on our life and culture. Encompassing more than 300,000 square feet (28,000 square metres), its exhibits and lifelike dioramas feature more than 150 rare and classic cars, trucks and motorcycles.
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The Museum of Television and Radio offers a complete history of radio and television at its new Beverly Hills location.
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The UCLA Hammer Museum features paintings by old masters, Impressionists and Post-impressionists, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Cassat, Monet and van Gogh. The UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, which is also part of the museum, includes prints, drawings, photographs and artist's books from the Renaissance to the present.
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Rancho Park Golf Course is a nearby public course with driving range, putting green and pro shop.
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The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is home of the Los Angeles Opera and Music Center Dance.

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The Henry Fonda Theatre is an old Hollywood theatre featuring plays and one-man shows.
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The Hollywood Bowl is the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and also hosts outdoor concerts by top classical, popular and jazz artists.
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The Pantages Theater is an old Hollywood theatre featuring Broadway and off-Broadway plays and musicals.

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The Shubert Theater offers top Broadway musicals.

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Walt Disney Concert Hall is the fourth and most recent addition to the Music Center of Los Angeles County. Designed by the internationally renowned architect, Frank Gehry, the 293,000 square-foot (27,220 square-metre) Concert Hall features a wavy, steel exterior designed to resemble a ship with its sail in full mast, representing Gehry's wish to create the feeling of travelling along a ceremonial barge to music. The centerpiece of the Concert Hall, a 2,265-seat auditorium with natural lighting in which the audience surrounds the orchestra, was designed to look and feel like the ship's hull.

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