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The British Columbia Parliament Buildings on Victoria's Inner Harbour are the seat of the province's Legislative Assembly. Designed by Francis Rattenbury and opened in 1898, the neo-Baroque stone building has a central dome topped by a gilded statue of Captain George Vancouver. Visitors can see the interior on guided or self-guided tours.

Emily Carr House is the birthplace and childhood home of the painter and writer Emily Carr, in Victoria's James Bay neighbourhood. The Italianate wooden house was built in 1863 for her father Richard Carr and restored by the province from 1976 to its 19th-century appearance. It is a provincial and national historic site with rooms furnished in the style of Carr's childhood.

Fisherman's Wharf is a working marina on Victoria Harbour, a short walk west of the Inner Harbour, run by the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority. Fishing boats, live-aboard vessels and a colony of brightly painted float homes are moored at its docks, and floating kiosks sell fish and chips, fresh seafood and whale-watching and kayak trips.

Dodger Stadium is the baseball park of the Los Angeles Dodgers in Chavez Ravine, next to Elysian Park, north of Downtown Los Angeles. Opened in 1962, it has about 56,000 seats, the largest capacity of any Major League Baseball park. Visitors come for games, concerts and guided tours of the field, dugouts and press box.

The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens lies in the north-east corner of Griffith Park and opened in 1966. It keeps around 1,400 animals of some 270 species in habitats grouped by region, among them the Elephants of Asia area and a gorilla reserve, and it took part in the breeding programme that saved the California condor.

Los Angeles Union Station opened in 1939 as the city's main railway station and is still its busiest transit hub. The building by John and Donald Parkinson combines Mission Revival, Spanish Colonial and Art Deco styles; visitors walk through the waiting room with its leather armchairs and tiled floors and into two shaded courtyard gardens.

Olvera Street is a short brick-paved lane in El Pueblo de Los Ángeles, the oldest part of the city, near where Los Angeles was founded in 1781. Restored as a Mexican-style marketplace in 1930, it is lined with stalls and restaurants and leads to the Avila Adobe of about 1818, the oldest surviving house in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles City Hall, completed in 1928, is the seat of the city's mayor and council in the Civic Center. Its 138-metre tower was the tallest building in the city until 1964. The rotunda has an inlaid marble floor and a tiled dome, and an observation deck near the top of the tower looks out over Downtown and the mountains.

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Temple Street is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Designed by Rafael Moneo and consecrated in 2002, it replaced the old cathedral damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Its ochre concrete walls avoid right angles, and alabaster panes filter the light into the nave.

Walt Disney Concert Hall on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles is the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Designed by Frank Gehry and opened in 2003, it is clad in curved stainless-steel panels; inside, the 2,265-seat hall has acoustics by Yasuhisa Toyota, and a garden on the upper level is open to visitors.

The Bradbury Building at Broadway and Third Street is the oldest commercial building in central Los Angeles, completed in 1893 to a design by George Wyman. Behind a plain brick front, its five-storey atrium has glazed tiles, open cage lifts and ornate cast-iron railings under a glass roof. It is an office building; visitors may step into the lobby.

The Broad is a museum of contemporary art on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, opened in 2015 to show the collection of Eli and Edythe Broad. The building by Diller Scofidio + Renfro wraps the galleries in a white honeycomb-like shell, and the collection of some 2,000 works includes art by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jeff Koons.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, or MOCA, was founded in 1979 and shows art made since 1940. Its main building on Grand Avenue, designed by Arata Isozaki in red sandstone and opened in 1986, holds a collection of some 7,000 works, with abstract expressionism, pop art and art from Los Angeles.

Angels Flight is a narrow-gauge funicular railway in Downtown Los Angeles that climbs about 90 metres of track between Hill Street and California Plaza on Bunker Hill. First opened in 1901, it was moved half a block and reopened in 1996. Its two orange and black cars, Sinai and Olivet, counterbalance each other on the slope.

Griffith Park covers about 1,700 hectares of the eastern Santa Monica Mountains and is one of the largest city parks in the United States. Given to Los Angeles by Griffith J. Griffith in 1896, it has hiking trails up Mount Hollywood, the Griffith Observatory, the Los Angeles Zoo, the Greek Theatre, golf courses and picnic areas.

Griffith Observatory stands on the southern slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park and opened in 1935. The Art Deco building holds exhibitions on astronomy, the Samuel Oschin Planetarium and a Zeiss refracting telescope open to the public on clear evenings, and its terraces look out over Los Angeles and the Hollywood Sign.

Hollyhock House in Barnsdall Art Park, East Hollywood, was Frank Lloyd Wright's first commission in Los Angeles, built from 1919 to 1921 for the oil heiress Aline Barnsdall. Its massive walls and roof terraces carry a stylised hollyhock motif. Part of a UNESCO World Heritage listing since 2019, it is shown as a house museum.

The Hollywood Sign spells HOLLYWOOD in white letters about 14 metres tall on Mount Lee in the Santa Monica Mountains. Put up in 1923 to advertise a housing development called Hollywoodland, it lost its last four letters in 1949 and was rebuilt in steel in 1978. The sign is fenced off; it is seen from Griffith Park and the streets of Hollywood.

The Butchart Gardens are display gardens in Brentwood Bay, north of Victoria on the Saanich Peninsula. In 1909 Jennie Butchart began turning her husband's exhausted limestone quarry into the Sunken Garden, and Japanese, Italian and rose gardens followed. Still owned by the Butchart family, the gardens are a National Historic Site of Canada.

The Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood takes visitors onto the working Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, near Los Angeles, a film and television studio in use since the late 1920s. Guided carts pass backlot streets and soundstages, and the tour ends at Stage 48 with sets, costumes and props, including the Central Perk set from Friends.