Wilshire Grand Center
The tallest building west of Chicago cleared the bar by spire alone — the roof itself wouldn't have won.
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Completed in 2017 for $1.2 billion, this 1,100-foot tower packs observation decks, 67,000 sq ft of retail, and the 889-room InterContinental into a single downtown block. The hotel's open-air bar is the highest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
What to look for
- The 300-foot spire — it supplies the entire margin over every rival; without it, WGC's roof sits well below both the Salesforce Tower and U.S. Bank Tower
- The open-air bar atop the InterContinental, the highest in the Western Hemisphere
- The full city-block footprint bounded by Wilshire Boulevard, 7th, Figueroa, and Francisco streets
In downtown LA's financial district; observation decks and retail are part of the mixed-use complex on-site.
Wilshire Grand Center is one of 33 sights worth the detour in Los Angeles, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Los Angeles pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Los Angeles
- Hollywood Walk of Fame2,850 names pressed into pink terrazzo underfoot — actors, inventors, fictional characters, all at six-foot intervals for 1.3 miles.
- Dolby TheatreThe red carpet runs up these stairs every awards season — where Hollywood officially crowns its year.
- SoFi StadiumA million-square-foot canopy embedded with 27,000 LED pucks bright enough to be seen from planes descending into LAX.
- Hollywood SignA 1923 real-estate billboard that refused to come down — and ended up owning the word "Hollywood" itself.
- U.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.
- Rose BowlA century-old sunken oval where the 1994 World Cup Final was settled — and the 2028 Olympics will return to do it again.