Los Angeles is a fairly young city, and there are no world-famous architectural monuments on its territory. In the city center, there are a number of buildings in the Art Deco style characteristic of the first half of the 20th century. The city is characterized by a regular layout and low building density – the majority of the population lives in private houses and villas. High-rise buildings are concentrated in the central part (until 1956, the law prohibited the construction of buildings higher than 45 m in the city). Modern architecture is represented by a wide variety of residential, commercial, and industrial buildings, including works by Frank Gehry (Walt Disney Concert Hall, California Air and Space Museum, etc.), African-American architect-innovator Paul Williams, Tom Mayne, Eric Moss, and other famous architects. The city has virtually no historical center – Los Angeles consists of separate neighborhoods with their own history and attractions. At the same time, guests of the city can find a lot of interesting things on its streets. Among the main places that attract tourists are:
- Hollywood and its film studios, many of which have organized expositions dedicated to cinema, Hollywood Boulevard (the “Walk of Fame” has been a star-studded street with the names of prominent film actors, television, recording and theater figures since 1960);
- Ancient Mexican street Olvera Street – a corner of antiquity among the glass and concrete of the central part of Los Angeles;
- Wilshire Boulevard, which stretches for 24 km from the city center to the ocean, and its central part, known as the “Mile of Miracles”, is filled with restaurants, nightclubs, etc.;
- Chinatown – a small corner of the East in the center of the metropolis;
- The Angels Flight cable car, sometimes called the “shortest railroad in the world”. Built in 1901, closed in 1969, reopened in 1996, and has been closed since March 15, 2001 due to an accident;
- US Bank Tower – a 310-meter-high skyscraper, one of the tallest buildings in the world, the tallest building in the United States west of Chicago;
- Exposition Park, on the territory of which there is the Colosseum stadium (95 thousand seats), which hosted the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games, museums of natural history, aerospace, scientific and industrial, African American museum, etc;
- Griffith Observatory with a planetarium, located in the park of the same name (the largest city park in the United States);
- Los Angeles Zoo, also located on the territory of Griffith Park;
- Malibu, Long Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, and beaches with warm and relatively clean water;
- “Watts Towers (also known as the Simon Rodia Towers) – three towers 30, 29 and 16 m high, built from materials using broken tiles, dishes, bottles and shells;
- “Venice is a neighborhood in the west of the city, famous for its beaches and canals;
- Inside Los Angeles is the administratively independent city of Beverly Hills, known for its luxurious mansions of famous Hollywood actors and film industry magnates – the materialized embodiment of the “American Dream”. In Beverly Hills in the 90s of the XX century, a huge shopping and entertainment center “Century City” (named after the 20th Century Fox studio located here) was built.