LA Landmarks
This famous white sign sits on a hill overlooking Los Angeles and originally advertised a housing development.
What is the Hollywood Sign?
This famous boulevard is home to more than 2,700 stars honoring actors, musicians, directors, and other entertainers.
What is the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
This California fast-food chain is famous for its fresh burgers, fries, and a not-so-secret "Animal Style" menu.
What is In-N-Out Burger?
This Los Angeles beach city grew rapidly after the Pacific Electric “Red Car” line connected it to Downtown LA in the early 1900s, turning it into a popular seaside escape.
What is Santa Monica Beach?
This iconic outdoor venue in Hollywood is shaped like a giant shell and is known for hosting free summer concerts.
What is the Hollywood Bowl?
This iconic pier features a Ferris wheel, roller coaster, and marks the western end of the historic Route 66.
What is Santa Monica Pier?
This historic Hollywood theater hosts many major movie premieres and is known for the celebrity handprints and footprints in its forecourt.
What is TCL Chinese Theatre?
Although it originated in Taiwan, this drink made with tea and chewy tapioca pearls has become one of LA's signature beverages.
What is boba tea (bubble tea)?
This beach is known for its boardwalk culture, street performers, skate park, and the famous “Muscle Beach” outdoor gym.
What is Venice Beach?
This Los Angeles neighborhood is known as the birthplace of West Coast hip-hop and helped launch artists like N.W.A.
What is Compton?
Visitors come here to look through telescopes, explore space exhibits, and enjoy one of the best panoramic views of Los Angeles.
What is Griffith Observatory?
This annual awards ceremony honors excellence in film and is held in Hollywood each year.
What are the Academy Awards (the Oscars)?
Los Angeles is credited with helping popularize this Mexican dish in the United States. It features marinated pork cooked on a vertical spit, a technique inspired by Middle Eastern shawarma.
What are tacos al pastor?
Nicknamed the "Queen of the Coast," this South Bay beach city is famous for its historic roundhouse aquarium located at the end of its pier.
What is Manhattan Beach?
This annual awards show, held in Los Angeles, honors the biggest achievements in the music industry across genres.
What are the Grammy Awards?
Designed by architect Richard Meier, this hilltop museum is famous for its gardens, art collections, and free admission.
What is the Getty Center?
This famous Los Angeles movie studio is home to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the Studio Tour, and many blockbuster film sets.
What is Universal Studios Hollywood?
Los Angeles' taco culture was heavily influenced by immigrants from this Mexican state, famous for dishes like tlayudas and mole.
What is Oaxaca?
This South Bay beach is home to the oldest standing concrete pier on the West Coast, originally built in 1920.
What is Hermosa Beach?
This famous LA record label, founded by Dr. Dre, helped define the sound of West Coast rap in the 1990s.
What is Death Row Records?
This contemporary art museum in Downtown Los Angeles is home to Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms and Jeff Koons' giant "Tulips" sculpture.
What is The Broad?
This iconic Hollywood theater has hosted the Academy Awards multiple times and is located within the Ovation Hollywood entertainment complex.
What is the Dolby Theatre?
This Los Angeles sandwich has been the subject of a century-long rivalry, with both Philippe the Original and Cole's claiming to have invented it.
What is the French dip sandwich?
This state beach in Pacific Palisades is named after a former California governor and actor and is a popular filming location for movies and television.
What is Will Rogers State Beach?
This Los Angeles recording studio complex, located in Hollywood, is where Michael Jackson recorded much of Thriller and countless film scores have been produced.
What is Westlake Recording Studios?