A 1930s-era project of the Works Progress Administration (like Timberline Lodge, but with a lot more movies filmed there, from Rebel Without a Cause to La La Land), the observatory is also a rewarding endpoint for a tiring hourlong hike up Griffith Park’s Firebreak Trail, an unsigned but well-worn route starting near the Trails Café. In the Hollywood Hills, the Griffith Park Observatory houses a planetarium, space exhibits, a Tesla coil, and what’s considered the world’s most looked-through telescope. (General admission is free, but there can be a wait to get in and it might be worth preordering a timed ticket at .) One of the largest art museums in the world, the sprawling Los Angeles County Museum of Art, west of downtown along Wilshire Boulevard, can easily suck up a whole day even with many of its galleries closed for construction of a new main building, starting this winter. For a contemporary art fix, the Broad Museum, opened in 2015, sits tucked under a weird webbing wrap right downtown. Perched along a ridge in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Getty Center offers city views and buildings (designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Richard Meier) that can overshadow the European art on its walls. Nearly every neighborhood is hiding at least a few buildings worth exploring. Look past the clogged freeways and the no-there-there burbs and discover a world of dazzling architecture and natural beauty, a city nestled into its surrounding hills, mountains, and water as if a young artiste were decorating a diorama. Image: courtesy Mika Korhonen/Unsplash 1.
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