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What to see in Los Angeles on foot
33 sights worth the detour, all walkable, all offline.
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Los Angeles is a city made for walking. This self-guided guide maps 33 of its sights worth the detour — landmarks, historic sites, museums and galleries and parks and gardens — the places locals point to and the tour buses skip, close enough to string into a single day on foot. Download the Los Angeles pack in Voyage GO before you go and the whole route works offline: no roaming, no dead battery from a live map. Every monument, viewpoint and park you pass quietly fills your travel passport.
Landmarks21
- 1Hollywood Walk of Fame2,850 names pressed into pink terrazzo underfoot — actors, inventors, fictional characters, all at six-foot intervals for 1.3 miles.
- 2Dolby TheatreThe red carpet runs up these stairs every awards season — where Hollywood officially crowns its year.
- 3SoFi StadiumA million-square-foot canopy embedded with 27,000 LED pucks bright enough to be seen from planes descending into LAX.
- 4Hollywood SignA 1923 real-estate billboard that refused to come down — and ended up owning the word "Hollywood" itself.
- 5U.S. Bank TowerLA sold the sky above a fire-gutted library to fund its own rebuilding — and got its second-tallest tower in the bargain.
- 6Rose BowlA century-old sunken oval where the 1994 World Cup Final was settled — and the 2028 Olympics will return to do it again.
- 7Los Angeles Memorial ColiseumThe only stadium that will have hosted the Summer Olympics three times — and it was commissioned in 1921 as a memorial to Los Angeles veterans of World War I.
- 8Walt Disney Concert HallFrank Gehry was certain he'd never get this commission — what he built anyway reshaped downtown Los Angeles.
- 9Hollywood BoulevardFifteen blocks of sidewalk hold a century of names — look down as much as up.
- 10La Brea Tar PitsCrude oil still seeps to the surface here — the same sticky trap that killed large mammals and then killed the predators that came to eat them.
- 11Griffith ObservatoryFree since opening day in 1935, and more people have pressed their eye to its Zeiss telescope than any other on Earth.
- 12Hollywood BowlSit where the hills form the back wall — this natural canyon has been pulling crowds since 1922.
- 13Los Angeles City HallThe tower was copied from a wonder of the ancient world, and for 38 years nothing in Los Angeles came close.
- 14Kia ForumThe arena where the Lakers played for 32 years still stands — held up by cables, not columns, in a design that was unlike anything else when it opened in 1967.
- 15Aon CenterIn 1973 nothing taller existed outside New York or Chicago — and a single fire here rewrote safety law for every high-rise in Los Angeles.
- 16Intuit DomeThe NBA's newest arena, built so the Clippers would never again spend three hours hiding the Lakers' championship banners.
- 17Rodeo DriveA former cattle-ranch bridle path that became one of the world's priciest addresses in under 50 years.
- 18Wilshire Grand CenterThe tallest building west of Chicago cleared the bar by spire alone — the roof itself wouldn't have won.
- 19Whisky a Go GoThe Doors played here seven nights a week as the house band. That alone earns it a place on any tour of the Strip.
- 20Cathedral of Our Lady of the AngelsA deconstructivist cathedral that rose from an earthquake's wreckage and sparked argument before the doors even opened.
- 21Universal Studios HollywoodThe studio that charged five cents and a boxed chicken lunch to watch real movies being made in 1915 still has cameras rolling today.
Historic Sites4
- 22Forest Lawn Memorial ParkHubert Eaton called ordinary cemeteries "unsightly, depressing stoneyards" — then spent decades replacing them with fountains, statuary, and a working art museum.
- 23Hollywood Forever CemeteryA working cemetery where the Paramount lot next door was once burial ground, and summer crowds now watch movies among the headstones.
- 24Walt Disney StudiosSnow White's box-office earnings built this place — a 51-acre working studio lot that has run continuously since 1940.
- 25Holy Cross CemeteryThe Scarecrow, Yogi Bear's voice, and a century of Hollywood careers share 200 acres in Culver City.
Museums & Galleries5
- 26Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)Getty pulled his donations and built his own museum — so Los Angeles County built one bigger.
- 27Norton Simon MuseumRodin at the door, a sculpture-ringed pond out back, European paintings somewhere in between.
- 28Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)A chance seating at a 1979 Beverly Hills Hotel fundraiser sparked a conversation that led six collectors to pledge up to $6 million — and accidentally build LA's defining contemporary art institution.
- 29The HuntingtonA railroad baron's 600-acre ranch, now 120 acres of botanical gardens wrapped around galleries of European and American art.
- 30Petersen Automotive Museum100 tons of stainless-steel ribbons coil around a windowless 1962 department store — the building looks like it's already in motion.
Parks & Gardens3
- 31Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood HillsA cemetery whose founder banned every "sign of Earthly death" and replaced them with fountains, statuary, and sweeping lawns.
- 32Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical GardensA 133-acre city-owned zoo built on an old aerodrome — and the bones of its predecessor are still out there if you look.
- 33Griffith ParkA 4,310-acre urban wilderness — America's largest — born from a 3,015-acre donation in 1896 by a man who later shot his wife, then funded an observatory to claw back his name.