Los Angeles Area Malls and Shopping Centers

West LA and Beverly Hills, including Beverly Center Shopping Mall, Rodeo Drive, Two Rodeo, Century City Shopping Center and Westside Pavilion.

Hollywood and nearby, including Hollywood & Highland, Universal CityWalk, Melrose Avenue and Robertson Boulevard Shopping District in West Hollywood.

Downtown and nearby, including California Market Center, LA Fashion District, Santee Alley, Cooper Design Space, Grand Central Market, LA Flower District, Little Tokyo District, Olvera Street, Citadel Factory Outlet.

Mid Wilshire and nearby, including The Grove, Original Farmers Market, West Third Street, Koreatown Galleria and Koreatown Plaza.

Santa Monica and nearby, including Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica Place, Montana Avenue, Main Street Santa Monica, Venice Beach Boardwalk, Malibu Country Mart.

South Bay / Redondo Beach, including Del Amo Fashion Center, Manhattan Village Mall, South Bay Galleria, Plaza El Segundo, South Bay Pavilion.

Burbank / Pasadena and Inland Empire, including Americana at Brand, Burbank Town Center, Downtown Burbank, Glendale Galleria, Old Town Pasadena, Paseo Colorado, Santa Anita Fashion Centre, Victoria Gardens.

LAX area, including Howard Hughes Promenade, Fox Hills Mall, Helms Furniture District.

San Fernando Valley, including Northridge Fashion Center, Panorama Mall, Sherman Oaks Galleria, Topanga Shopping Center, Sherman Oaks Fashion Square.

Long Beach and nearby, including Lakewood Center, Long Beach CityPlace, Shoreline Village, Ports O' Call Village, Los Cerritos Center, Westminster Mall.

Disneyland / Anaheim and nearby, including Downtown Disney, Knott's California MarketPlace, Buena Park Downtown, Cola Corner, Anaheim Gardenwalk.

Orange County and nearby, including The Block at Orange, Brea Mall, The Market Place, Fashion Island, Irvine Spectrum Center, South Coast Plaza.

Away from L.A., including The Oaks Mall in Thousand Oaks, Valencia Town Center, Lake Arrowhead Village, Ontario Mills.

Tourism Spots In Los Angeles

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Aquarium of the pacific

Diving birds that "fly" underwater. Mysterious sea dragons that make their home in a coral lagoon. Sharks you can (safely!) touch. Get an up-close look at the diverse sea life of the Pacific — and don't forget to say hello to resident sea otter Maggie.

Autry National Center

Formerly known as the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, the museum examines the interwoven histories, cultures and mythologies of the American West and its diverse peoples. In less than 20 years, this collection has grown to encompass a broad and inclusive representation of art and artifacts from the American West, including a renowned collection of ranch life and cowboy culture. The popular gallery is devoted to the early days of the Hollywood westerns.

Bellmont Park

Unlimited ride wristband at San Diego's only beachfront amusement center, the home of the historic Giant Dipper rollercoaster. Belmont Park was once abandoned but has been reborn as a shopping, dining, and entertainment center in the tradition of old-time family fun. Originally built in 1925, the Giant Dipper is on the National Register of Historic Places but still delights riders with more than 2,500 feet of track and thirteen heart-pounding hills.

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is an educational, recreational, and research facility devoted to encouraging active public participation to promote knowledge and conservation of the marine life of Southern California. Celebrating 70 years of marine education, the Aquarium is a facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks and is located on the shore at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro between Point Fermin and the Port of Los Angeles. The tidepools of the Point Fermin Marine Life Refuge, a salt marsh, fishing pier, sandy beaches and fossil rich cliffs are all within accessible walking distance from the Aquarium.

California Science center IMAX Movie

With a screen measuring seven stories tall and 90 feet wide along with a state-of-the-art digital sound system, this theater creates a totally immersive experience. Admission to the California Science Center is free. This pass features the IMAX ticket.

Dizcovery Science center

Imaginations turn, twist, and fly through 120 exciting hands-on science exhibits at Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana. Recognized by its landmark 10-story solar cube, the Center features two floors of exciting areas to explore including Dynamic Earth, Dino Quest, Science of Hockey, Space Exploration, Boeing Rocket Lab and new Environmental Exhibits opening Summer 2011.

Flagship Cruises

Join Flagship Cruises for a harbor tour or Whale Watch. Harbor tours run year round and frequently each day; you can choose from the one hour North or South Bay tour. The Whale Watch is operated seasonally and runs from December to March. It takes 3 1/2 hours, and will follow the California gray whale as it migrates from the Bering Sea to Baja. On the water, you might also experience views of dolphins, seals and much more. Bring your camera and enjoy a wonderful day on the water in San Diego!

GRAMMY museum

Love music? Don't leave LA without visiting this attraction. It’s incredible array of artifacts, exhibits, films and more explore the people, songs and technology behind all major forms of music. Tip: Experience your own GRAMMY® moment in the Clive Davis Theater.

Hollywood museum

Behold the cinematic splendor of Hollywood as you peruse thousands of beloved items from Hollywood’s glitzy history, spread out on four floors and across 35,000 square feet. 10,000 items, including Rocky’s boxing gloves, Marilyn Monroe’s sexy dresses, Indiana Jones’ whip, Cary Grant’s Rolls-Royce, and so much more! The Hollywood Museum boasts the largest collection of costumes, props, and photographs anywhere in Hollywood, and a visit to Tinseltown wouldn’t be complete without checking this place out.

• Hop-on Hop off yellow route tour departing santa Monica.
• Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
• Japanese american National Museum
• K1 speed Indoor karting
• Knott's berry farm
• Kodak theatre
• Legoland
• Los angeles Zoo
• Madame tussauds Hollywood
• Malibu Celebrity Homes Tour
• Moca Grand avenue
• Museum of tolerance
• Pacific park on the santa monica pier
• Paramount pictures studio tour
• petersen automotive museum
• queen mary
• Red line 
• Warner bros studio VIP tour

Transportation in Los Angeles

Freeways

The city and the rest of the Los Angeles metropolitan area are served by an extensive network of freeways and highways. The Texas Transportation Institute, which publishes an annual Urban Mobility Report, ranked Los Angeles road traffic as the most congested in the United States in 2005 as measured by annual delay per traveler. The average traveler in Los Angeles experienced 72 hours of traffic delay per year according to the study. Los Angeles was followed by San Francisco/Oakland, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, (each with 60 hours of delay). Despite the congestion in the city, the mean travel time for commuters in Los Angeles is shorter than other major cities, including New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago. Los Angeles' mean travel time for work commutes in 2006 was 29.2 minutes, similar to those of San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

Among the major highways that connect LA to the rest of the nation include Interstate 5, which runs south through San Diego to Tijuana in Mexico and north through Sacramento, Portland, and Seattleto the Canadian border; Interstate 10, the southernmost east–west, coast-to-coast Interstate Highway in the United States, going to Jacksonville, Florida; and U.S. Route 101, which heads to theCalifornia Central Coast, San Francisco, the Redwood Empire, and the Oregon and Washington coasts.

Transit systems

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and other agencies operate an extensive system of bus lines, as well as subway and light rail lines across Los Angeles County, with a combined monthly ridership (measured in individual boardings) of 38.8 million as of September, 2011. The majority of this (30.5 million) is taken up by the city's bus system, the second busiest in the country. The subway and light rail combined average the remaining roughly 8.2 million boardings per month. In 2005, 10.2% of Los Angeles commuters rode some form of public transportation.

The city's subway system is the ninth busiest in the United States and its light rail system is the country's second busiest. The rail system includes theRed and Purple subway lines, as well as the Gold, Blue, and Green light rail lines. The first phase of the Expo Line is scheduled to open on April 28, 2012. The Metro Orange Line is a bus rapid transit line with stops and frequency similar to those of a light rail. The city is also central to the commuter rail systemMetrolink, which links Los Angeles to all neighboring counties as well as many suburbs.

Besides the rail service provided by Metrolink and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles is served by inter-city passenger trains from Amtrak. The main rail station in the city is Union Station just north of Downtown.

Airports

Other major nearby commercial airports include:The main Los Angeles airport is Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX). The sixth busiest commercial airport in the world and the third busiest in the United States, LAX handled over 61 million passengers and 2 million tons of cargo in 2006. LAX is a hub for United Airlines

• (IATA: ONT, ICAO: KONT) LA/Ontario International Airport, owned by the city of Los Angeles; serves the Inland Empire.
• (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR) Bob Hope Airport, formerly known as Burbank Airport; serves the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys
• (IATA: LGB, ICAO: KLGB) Long Beach Airport, serves the Long Beach/Harbor area
• (IATA: SNA, ICAO: KSNA) John Wayne Airport of Orange County.

One of the world's busiest general-aviation airports is also located in Los Angeles, Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY).

Seaports

The sea ports of the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach together make up the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor. Together, both ports are the fifth busiest container port in the world, with a trade volume of over 14.2 million TEU's in 2008. Singly, the Port of Los Angeles is the busiest container port in the United States and the largest cruise ship center on the West Coast of the United States – The Port of Los Angeles' World Cruise Center served about 800,000 passengers in 2009.The Port of Los Angeles is located in San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro neighborhood, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of Downtown. Also called Los Angeles Harbor and WORLDPORT LA, the port complex occupies 7,500 acres (30 km²) of land and water along 43 miles (69 km) of waterfront. It adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach.

There are also smaller, non-industrial harbors along Los Angeles' coastline. Safety is provided at the only beach controlled by Los Angeles City by the highly-trained Los Angeles City lifeguards.

The port includes four bridges: the Vincent Thomas Bridge, Henry Ford Bridge, Gerald Desmond Bridge, and Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge.

 

Religion in Los Angeles

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles leads the largest archdiocese in the country. Cardinal Roger Mahony oversaw construction of theCathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, which opened in September, 2002 in downtown Los Angeles. Construction of the cathedral marked a coming of age of the city's Catholic, heavily Latino community. There are numerous Catholic churches and parishes throughout Los Angeles.

With 621,000 Jews in the metropolitan area (490,000 in city proper), the region has the second largest population of Jews in the United States. Many of Los Angeles' Jews now live on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley, though Boyle Heights and Northwest Los Angeles once had large Jewish populations. Many varieties of Judaism are represented in the area, including Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and Reconstructionist. The Breed Street Shulin East Los Angeles, built in 1923, was the largest synagogue west of Chicago in its early decades. (It is no longer a sacred space and is being converted to a museum and community center.) The Kabbalah Centre also has a presence in the city.

Los Angeles has had a rich and influential Protestant tradition. The first Protestant service in Los Angeles was a Methodist meeting held in a private home in 1850 and the oldest Protestant church still operating was founded in 1867. In the early 1900s the Bible Institute Of Los Angeles published the founding documents of the Christian Fundamentalist movement and the Azusa Street Revival launched Pentecostalism. Aimee Semple McPherson broadcast over the radio in the 1920s from the Angelus Temple, home of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and its Life Pacific College. The Potter's House Christian Fellowship and Metropolitan Community Church also had their origins in the city. Billy Graham's first big success came in L.A. (in 1949) and notable ministers connected to the city includeRobert P. Shuler, Charles E. Fuller, Gene Scott, Jesse Lee Peterson, and Solomon Burke. Important churches in the city include First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, Bel Air Presbyterian Church,First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, West Angeles Church of God in Christ, Second Baptist Church, Crenshaw Christian Center, McCarty Memorial Christian Church, and First Congregational Church.

The Hollywood region of Los Angeles also has several significant headquarters, churches, and the Celebrity Center of Scientology.The Los Angeles California Temple, the second largest temple operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is on Santa Monica Boulevard in the Westwood district of Los Angeles. Dedicated in 1956, it was the first Mormon temple built in California and it was the largest in the world when completed.

Because of Los Angeles' large multi-ethnic population, a wide variety of faiths are practiced, including Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism,Bahá'í, various Eastern Orthodox Churches, Sufism and others. Immigrants from Asia for example, have formed a number of significant Buddhistcongregations making the city home to the greatest variety of Buddhists in the world.