The 13 Most Iconic Landmarks in Los Angeles
13 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Beverly Hills & Rodeo Drive
Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, United States
Beverly Hills is the most famous wealthy neighbourhood in the world — an independent city (technically not part of LA) of manicured lawns, palm-lined streets, and the kind of concentrated luxury that has defined American aspirational culture since Hollywood's golden age.
Bradbury Building
304 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013
The Bradbury Building is the most photographed interior in Los Angeles — a five-storey office building from 1893 whose exterior is unremarkable brown brick but whose interior is an atrium of ornate wrought-iron staircases, open cage elevators, and a glass ceiling that floods the space with natural light.
Dodger Stadium
1000 Vin Scully Ave, Elysian Park, Los Angeles, 90012, United States
Dodger Stadium is the third-oldest major league baseball park in America — a 56,000-seat mid-century modern masterpiece in Chavez Ravine that has been home to the Los Angeles Dodgers since 1962 and is widely considered the most beautiful baseball stadium in the country.
Hollywood Sign & Griffith Observatory
2800 E Observatory Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90027
The Griffith Observatory is the most visited public observatory in the world and the best place to see the Hollywood Sign — a white Art Deco building perched on the south slope of Mount Hollywood that provides free telescopic views of the night sky, planetarium shows, and a panoramic view of Los Angeles that stretches from downtown's glass towers to the Pacific Ocean.
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood, Los Angeles, 90028, United States
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is the most famous sidewalk in the world — 2,700+ five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the pavement along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street, each bearing the name of a celebrity from the entertainment industry.
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
5905 Wilshire Blvd, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, 90036, United States
LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States — a multi-building campus on Wilshire Boulevard's Miracle Mile that houses 150,000 works spanning 6,000 years, from ancient Assyrian reliefs to contemporary installations.
Malibu & Pacific Coast Highway
Pacific Coast Highway, Los Angeles, United States
Malibu is the 27-mile stretch of Pacific coastline northwest of Santa Monica that represents the California dream in its most concentrated form — surfing beaches, celebrity homes, seafood restaurants on the pier, and the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) hugging the cliffs between the Santa Monica Mountains and the ocean.
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles, 90049, United States
Mulholland Drive is LA's most famous road — a 55-kilometre scenic highway running along the crest of the Santa Monica Mountains from the Hollywood Hills to the Pacific Coast near Malibu, providing views of the LA basin on one side and the San Fernando Valley on the other.
Original Farmers Market & The Grove
6333 W 3rd St, La Brea, Los Angeles, 90036, United States
The Original Farmers Market has been feeding Los Angeles since 1934 — an open-air market at the corner of Third and Fairfax that started when a group of farmers parked their trucks on a vacant lot during the Depression and hasn't stopped since.
Santa Monica Pier & Beach
200 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Santa Monica Pier is where Route 66 meets the Pacific Ocean — the western terminus of America's most famous highway and one of the most recognisable landmarks in Los Angeles.
Union Station
800 N Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Union Station is the last great railway station built in America — a 1939 masterpiece that blends Art Deco, Spanish Colonial Revival, and Streamline Moderne architecture into a style so distinctive that it has no proper name beyond 'Union Station style.
Venice Beach & Boardwalk
Ocean Front Walk, Los Angeles, 90291, United States
Venice Beach is LA's most characterful boardwalk — a 2.
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Walt Disney Concert Hall is Frank Gehry's masterpiece — a 2,265-seat concert hall wrapped in swooping curves of stainless steel that has been the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2003 and is the most architecturally significant building in LA.
Explore iconic in Los Angeles
GPS-guided narration at every landmark. Tap a spot on the map, hear the story. Every fact verified.