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Celebrities have flocked to this European-style hotel like moths to the flame since its opening way back in 1929. Famed for its discretion, it has remained a favorite spot for celebrity trysts. Check out the chic Bar Marmont (see Chateau Marmont, Bar Marmont, Chateau Marmont).

Dennis Woodruff is best known for being a non-celebrity. The “world’s most famous unknown actor” can be seen maneuvering around Hollywood in his outrageous vintage car decorated with lines such as “Buy my movie” or “Actor Awaiting his Break.” Woodruff’s elusive quest for fame was featured in Angelo Guglielmo’s documentary Idling Brando .

Dodger Stadium, home of the LA Dodgers major league baseball team, is widely regarded as a crown jewel among American ballparks. Completed in 1962, its clever configuration allows for good sight lines from all 56,000 seats. Panoramic city and mountain views are an extra bonus. Guided tours, which include peeks at the press box and dugout, are offered on non-game days.

As artists move into studios here, hip galleries, shops, and restaurants have opened.

People of all colors and ages gather on the beach on Sunday afternoons, chanting and gyrating to the seductive rhythms of pots, bells, and bottles.

This indoor marketplace offers a peek into Mexican-American culture. Stop for an authentic meal or browse colorful stalls.

It takes a morbid sense of humor to cover a sausage factory with a giant mural of verdant pastures with happy, frolicking pigs. But that’s just what the Cloughertys, the family behind the Farmer John meat empire, did when they hired Les Grimes, a Hollywood set painter, in the late 1950s. Tourists have gone “hog-wild” ever since.

This 56-block district is the heart of LA’s clothing industry (the largest in the nation) and heaven on earth for bargain hunters (see Santee Alley).

This 1913 cut-flower market, the largest in the country, has it all from roses to orchids.