Los Angeles County, California

Sites of interest

The county's most visited park is Griffith Park, owned by the City of Los Angeles . The county is also known for the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, the annual Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Zoo, the Natural History Museum, the La Brea Tar Pits, the Arboretum of Los Angeles, and two horse racetracks and a car racetrack, and miles of beaches--from Zuma to Cabrillo.

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Griffith Park - Rose Parade - Pasadena - Los Angeles County Fair - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles Zoo - Natural History Museum - La Brea Tar Pits - Arboretum of Los Angeles

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Venice Beach is a popular attraction where its Muscle Beach used to find throngs of tourists admiring "hardbodies". Today it is more arts-centered. Santa Monica's pier is a well known tourist spot, famous for its ferris wheel and bumper car rides, which were featured in the introductory segment of the television sitcom Three's Company. Further north in Pacific Palisades one finds the beaches used in the television series Baywatch. The fabled Malibu, home of many a film or television star, lies west of it.

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Venice Beach - Muscle Beach - Santa Monica - Ferris wheel - Television - Sitcom - Three's Company - Pacific Palisades - Baywatch - Malibu - Star

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In the mountain, canyon, and desert areas one may find Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, where many old westerns, the original television series Star Trek and The Flintstones movies were filmed. Mount Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains is open for the public to view astronomical stars from its telescope, now computer-assisted. Many county residents find relaxation in water skiing and swimming at Castaic Lake Recreation Area - the county's largest park by area - as well as enjoying natural surroundings and starry nights at Saddleback Butte State Park in the eastern Antelope Valley - California State Parks' largest in area within the county. The California Poppy Reserve is located in the western Antelope Valley and shows off the State's flower in great quantity on its rolling hills every spring.

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Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park - Star Trek - The Flintstones - Mount Wilson Observatory - San Gabriel Mountains - Star - Telescope - Computer - Water skiing - Castaic - Saddleback Butte State Park - Antelope Valley - California Poppy Reserve

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Museums

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mid-City Los Angeles
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Downtown Los Angeles (founded in 1950)
• Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena (19th and early 20th Century art)
• Pasadena Museum of California Art Pasadena
• J. Paul Getty Museum, Brentwood (Ancient Roman, Greek, and European Renaissance Art)
• Geffin Contemporary, Downtown Los Angeles (founded in 1980)
• Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (Contemporary art)
• Huntington Library, San Marino
• Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles
• Museum of Tolerance
• Museum of Jurassic Technology, Culver City
• Long Beach Museum of Art
• Museum of Latin American Art
• Los Angeles Children's Museum
• Los Angeles Natural History Museum
• George C. Page Museum at La Brea Tar Pits
• Museum of the American West (Gene Autry Museum), in Griffith Park
• Southwest Museum

Entertainment

• La Brea Tar Pits
• Griffith Park
• Los Angeles Zoo
• Staples Center
• Los Angeles Farmers Market
• Griffith Observatory
• Descanso Gardens
• Huntington Gardens (the grounds of Huntington library)
• Olvera Street
• Exposition Park
• Venice Beach
• Third Street Promenade

Music venues

• Disney Concert Hall
• Pantages Theatre
• Universal Amphitheatre
• The Wiltern
• Hollywood Bowl
• House of Blues Sunset Strip
• John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
• The Roxy Theatre
• El Rey Theatre
• Whisky A Go-Go

Amusement Parks

• Six Flags Magic Mountain
• Universal Studios

Other attractions

• U.S. Bank Tower
• Central Los Angeles Library
• Wayfarers Chapel
• Hsi Lai Temple
• Queen Mary

Outside the city

• Ridge Route
• Angeles National Forest
• Mount Wilson Observatory
• Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park
• Plant 42's Blackbird Airpark and Heritage Airpark
• Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
• Saddleback Butte State Park
• Antelope Valley Indian Museum State Historic Park
• Arthur B. Ripley Desert Woodland State Park