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La Jolla Cove is a small sandy cove below the sandstone cliffs of La Jolla village in San Diego, sheltered by rocky points. It lies within the San Diego–La Jolla Underwater Park, a protected marine reserve where people swim, snorkel and kayak among garibaldi fish and kelp, and sea lions and harbour seals rest on the nearby rocks.

SeaWorld San Diego is a marine theme park on Mission Bay, opened in 1964 as the first SeaWorld. It combines animal habitats and aquariums, with penguins, dolphins, sea lions, sharks and orcas, with roller coasters such as Manta, Electric Eel and Emperor, and the Bayside Skyride cable car that crosses part of the bay.

Belmont Park is a seaside amusement park on Mission Beach in San Diego, opened in 1925 by the businessman John D. Spreckels. Its centrepiece is the Giant Dipper, a wooden roller coaster from the same year and a National Historic Landmark; beside it are The Plunge indoor pool, smaller rides, arcades and restaurants by the boardwalk.

Cabrillo National Monument on the tip of the Point Loma peninsula marks the landing of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in San Diego Bay in 1542, the first European expedition to the west coast of what is now the United States. The National Park Service site includes the Old Point Loma Lighthouse of 1855, tide pools, coastal trails and views over the bay and the city.

The Museum of Anthropology stands on the University of British Columbia campus in western Vancouver, in a concrete and glass building by Arthur Erickson that opened in 1976. Its Great Hall holds totem poles from Haida and other First Nations villages, and it shows Bill Reid's cedar sculpture The Raven and the First Men among some 50,000 objects.

Angel Stadium in Anaheim is the baseball park of the Los Angeles Angels, opened in 1966 as Anaheim Stadium. It holds about 45,000 spectators, and two oversized baseball caps flank its main entrance, while a 70-metre steel A with a halo stands in the car park. Visitors come for games and for guided tours of the ballpark.

Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, near Anaheim, was built in 1980 as the Crystal Cathedral for the televangelist Robert H. Schuller, to a design by Philip Johnson and John Burgee. Its star-shaped steel frame is covered with more than 10,000 panes of glass. The Catholic Diocese of Orange bought it in 2012 and consecrated it as its cathedral in 2019.

Disneyland in Anaheim is the first theme park built by Walt Disney, opened in 1955. From Main Street, U.S.A. visitors reach Sleeping Beauty Castle and themed lands such as Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland, Tomorrowland and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. It forms the Disneyland Resort with Disney California Adventure across the entrance plaza.

Disney California Adventure is the second theme park of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, opened in 2001 on the former Disneyland car park. Its areas draw on California and on Pixar and Marvel films, among them Buena Vista Street, Cars Land with Radiator Springs Racers, Pixar Pier and Avengers Campus.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, next to Pasadena, was founded in 1919 by the railway magnate Henry E. Huntington. Its library holds rare books and manuscripts such as a Gutenberg Bible; the art collections include Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, and some 49 hectares of themed gardens surround the buildings.

The Gamble House in Pasadena was built in 1908 by the architects Charles and Henry Greene as a winter home for David and Mary Gamble of Procter & Gamble. It is a key work of the American Arts and Crafts movement, with deep eaves, sleeping porches and hand-crafted teak and mahogany interiors, and is shown on guided tours.

Knott's Soak City is a water park across the street from Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, near Anaheim, opened in 2000 with a theme of 1950s and 1960s Southern California surf culture. It has water slides, a wave pool, a lazy river and a children's play structure with tipping buckets, and it opens on select days in summer.

The Norton Simon Museum on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena shows the collection assembled by the industrialist Norton Simon, who took over the former Pasadena Art Museum in 1974. It holds European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century, with works by Raphael, Rembrandt, Degas and Van Gogh, and sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.

Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, near Anaheim, grew from the berry stand and chicken dinner restaurant that Walter and Cordelia Knott ran in the 1920s and 1930s; its Ghost Town of old western buildings followed in 1940. Today the theme park has roller coasters such as GhostRider, the Calico Mine Ride and a Peanuts area for children.

The Colorado Street Bridge carries Colorado Boulevard about 45 metres above the Arroyo Seco on the western edge of Pasadena. Opened in 1913, the concrete bridge follows a curve across the ravine on a series of tall arches with Beaux-Arts lamp posts and railings, and it was restored after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Craigdarroch Castle is a Scottish Baronial–style mansion in Victoria's Rockland neighbourhood, built between 1887 and 1890 for the coal baron Robert Dunsmuir, who died before it was finished. Now a museum and a National Historic Site of Canada, it shows 1890s family life across 37 rooms with wood panelling and stained glass, and a tower reached by 87 steps.

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is an art museum in Victoria's Rockland neighbourhood, founded in 1946 and housed since 1951 in the 1889 Spencer Mansion with exhibition galleries added between 1955 and 1978. Its collection of more than 20,000 works covers Canadian and Indigenous art, art from Asia and across the Pacific Rim, and paintings by Emily Carr.

Beacon Hill Park is a 75-hectare city park on the shore of the Juan de Fuca Strait, south of downtown Victoria, protected since 1858 and a municipal park since 1882. It combines ponds, flower gardens and Garry oak meadows with a hill looking across to the Olympic Mountains, a 38.8-metre totem pole carved by Mungo Martin and Mile Zero of the Trans-Canada Highway.

The Empress is a hotel facing Victoria's Inner Harbour, designed by Francis Rattenbury for the Canadian Pacific Railway and opened in 1908. The château-style brick building with steep roofs and gables was extended in 1912 and 1928 and is a National Historic Site of Canada. Non-guests can see the exterior and gardens, and afternoon tea is served inside.

The Royal BC Museum is the provincial museum of British Columbia, founded in 1886 and set on Victoria's Inner Harbour between the Parliament Buildings and the Empress hotel. Its galleries cover the natural and human history of the province, with a model of a woolly mammoth among the exhibits, and the building also houses an IMAX theatre.