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BMO Stadium is a football stadium in Exposition Park, south of Downtown Los Angeles, and the home ground of Los Angeles FC in Major League Soccer and of Angel City FC. It opened in 2018 as Banc of California Stadium, holds about 22,000 spectators and also hosts concerts and other events.

The Hollywood Bowl is an open-air amphitheatre in a natural hollow of the Hollywood Hills, opened in 1922. Its concentric white shell, rebuilt in 2004, frames a stage for about 17,500 spectators. It is the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and also hosts pop concerts and film screenings with live orchestra.

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opened in 1913 in a Beaux-Arts building in Exposition Park. Its collections hold over 35 million specimens and artifacts; visitors see the Dinosaur Hall, the Gem and Mineral Hall, dioramas of African and North American mammals and an exhibition on the history of Los Angeles.

Universal Studios Hollywood is a film studio and theme park in Universal City, in the hills above Hollywood. Its Studio Tour has driven visitors through the working backlot and its film sets since 1964, and the park adds rides and areas based on films, among them The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Super Nintendo World.

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Hollywood is a museum of curiosities on Hollywood Boulevard, part of the chain based on the collections of the cartoonist and traveller Robert Ripley. Its rooms show oddities, replicas and artworks made from unusual materials, along with displays on record-breaking people and animals.

The Dolby Theatre is a 3,400-seat theatre in the Ovation Hollywood complex on Hollywood Boulevard. It opened in 2001 as the Kodak Theatre and has hosted the Academy Awards ceremony since 2002. Between shows and concerts, guided tours take visitors through the auditorium, the lobby and the VIP room.

The Hard Rock Cafe Hollywood is a restaurant of the Hard Rock chain in the Ovation Hollywood complex on Hollywood Boulevard, beside the Dolby Theatre. Its walls and cases show music memorabilia such as stage costumes, guitars and handwritten lyrics, and it has a bar, a stage for live music and a shop.

The TCL Chinese Theatre is a cinema on Hollywood Boulevard opened by Sid Grauman in 1927, with a façade modelled on a Chinese temple. Its forecourt holds the handprints, footprints and signatures of film stars pressed into concrete since the late 1920s, and the auditorium, converted to IMAX in 2013, still hosts film premieres.

Madame Tussauds Hollywood is a wax museum on Hollywood Boulevard, next to the TCL Chinese Theatre. It opened in 2009 and shows more than a hundred wax figures of film and television actors, musicians and athletes, arranged in themed rooms where visitors can stand beside them for photos.

The Hollywood Walk of Fame runs along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street. Since 1960 more than 2,700 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars have been set into the pavement, each with the name of a person or group honoured for work in film, television, music, radio or theatre.

The Museum of Latin American Art, MOLAA, in the East Village of Long Beach was founded in 1996 by Robert Gumbiner and shows modern and contemporary art from Latin America and by Latino artists in the United States. The museum grew out of a former roller-skating rink, and a sculpture garden adjoins the galleries.

The La Brea Tar Pits are natural asphalt seeps in Hancock Park on Wilshire Boulevard where fossils of Ice Age animals such as mammoths, sabre-toothed cats and dire wolves have been dug up since the early 1900s. The La Brea Tar Pits Museum shows the skeletons, and visitors can watch excavation and fossil preparation in progress.

The Queen Mary is a British ocean liner that crossed the North Atlantic for the Cunard line from 1936 to 1967, served as a troopship in the Second World War, and has been moored in Long Beach since 1967. Today it is a hotel and visitor attraction where guided tours lead through the Art Deco salons, the bridge and the engine room.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, known as LACMA, is the largest art museum in the western United States, on Wilshire Boulevard next to the La Brea Tar Pits. Founded in 1961 and opened at this site in 1965, it holds art from antiquity to the present, from Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Islamic world.

The Aquarium of the Pacific opened in 1998 on Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach. Its galleries follow three regions of the Pacific Ocean: Southern California and Baja, the northern Pacific and the tropical Pacific. Visitors see sea otters, sharks, jellyfish and a large kelp forest tank, and can touch rays in a shallow lagoon.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is the film museum of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wilshire Boulevard. It opened in 2021 in the restored 1939 May Company department store and a spherical theater designed by Renzo Piano, with exhibitions on filmmaking, film history and the Oscars.

The Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire Boulevard shows the history and culture of the car across three floors. Founded in 1994 by the publisher Robert E. Petersen, it was given a new façade of red and silver steel ribbons in 2015. Its rotating exhibitions cover racing cars, film cars and design, and a guided Vault tour shows more of the collection.

Six Flags Magic Mountain is a theme park in Valencia, Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles, opened in 1971 and run by Six Flags since 1979. It holds 20 roller coasters, more than any other theme park, among them Twisted Colossus, X2 and Tatsu, along with family rides and a children's area.

The Battleship IOWA Museum is the battleship USS Iowa, moored at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro since 2012. Commissioned in 1943, the ship served in the Second World War, carried President Roosevelt across the Atlantic to the Tehran Conference and fought in Korea. Visitors walk the decks, gun turrets, bridge and crew quarters.

The Getty Center is the hilltop campus of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Brentwood, designed by Richard Meier and opened in 1997. A tram brings visitors up from the car park to pavilions clad in travertine that show European paintings, drawings, sculpture, manuscripts and photographs, and to the Central Garden designed by Robert Irwin.