Mall of Hollywood stars
Hollywood Blvd, Los AngelesLos Angeles is associated primarily with Hollywood, and Hollywood - with the stars , so there is nothing surprising in that the Avenue of Stars is rightly considered the most popular landmark of the city. Every year, more than 10 million tourists stroll along the Walk of the Stars, with delight and a third reading the names of idols
Hollywood Blessing Hall
Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles"Immortalized in Concrete" - this is about the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The patio of the magnificent Chinese theater Grauman is entirely covered with concrete slabs with fingerprints of the hands, feet, and in exceptional cases, the paws of celebrities. In contrast to Avenue of Stars, the local "get-together" is not mass.
Alcatraz
San Francisco, Alcatraz islandThe most famous prison of the United States and, perhaps, all of the world, Alcatraz is not only a correctional institution (by the way, it has been functioning for more than 30 years only as a museum), but also a small picturesque island in 15 minutes' march from the San Francisco marina.
Beverly Hills
To see Hollywood in all its glossy splendor, you need to visit the richest area of Los Angeles, whose name evokes voluptuous shivers from all fans of the once popular Beverly TV series -Hills 90210 ".
Hollywood
In Hollywood - the Los Angeles area - a record number of movie and show business stars per square meter. It is here that the epicenter of the world film industry is located. Life is boiling in this part of the "city of angels" around the clock and, immersed in its colorful hustle.
Napa Valley
California, Napa ValleyThe main winemaking region of the United States, picturesque and The fertile Napa Valley stretches across the expanses of Northern California. In total there are 14 thousand hectares of vineyards, several dozen large and four hundred small wineries.
Hollywood Sign
White letters forming the HOLLYWOOD inscription, surrounded by lush green slopes of Mount Mount Lee - without exaggeration the most recognizable "locality" sign on the planet and besides the only one that has its own Internet site
Yosemite
Yosemite Village, CAYosemite National Park is one of the first nature reserves in the United States due to its unique virgin nature since 1984 of the year GSI under the protection of UNESCO. The reserve with the highest waterfall in North America and 1,300 km of tourist routes is located on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the state of California.
The Chinese Grauman Theater
6801 Hollywood Blvd, Los AngelesThe most delightfully beautiful Hollywood building, the Grauman Chinese Theater is a hymn to the subtle Celestial architectural style and a tribute to the significant Chinese diaspora, without which it is impossible to imagine Los Angeles for the past 75 years.
Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge, San FranciscoGolden Gate Bridge - the most famous sights The city is a symbol of San Francisco and the entire Pacific coast of the United States. Hovering over the bay, the handsome man managed to "light up" in a good hundred films and acquire his own Internet site.
Ripley Museum "If you want - believe it or not!
San Francisco, Jefferson street 175As the official slogan of the museum says, this is the only place in San Francisco (and, I think, in all the USA) where you can see a dried up female torso, a mummified leg of an Egyptian mummy, pictures made of a dictophone tape, and an elephant about two trunks
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, 3rd street, 151The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco can be called the main and most visited museum of the city. In addition to the vast collection of works of art from 19-21 centuries with more than 29,000 works, the museum is notable for its ultra-modern building.
Union Square in San Francisco
San Francisco, Union squareEntertaining and commercial center of San Francisco, Union Square is the focus of expensive boutiques of famous designers, gourmet restaurants and trendy nightclubs. If your goal is entertainment, you can not leave the Union Square at all.
Watts Towers
107th St, Los AngelesWatts Towers is a vivid example of what in the city of mirror skyscrapers is most interesting is not the skyscrapers, moreover - not at all mirrored, but collected almost from the materials at hand. A collection of 17 communicating towers up to 30 meters high
The Tower of the Bank of the United States in Los Angeles
633, West Fifth Street, Los AngelesThe most recognizable high- The Tower of the Bank of the United States rises to 310 meters in the business center of the city. The 72-story skyscraper is surrounded by other skyscrapers, but stands out well against their backdrop due to an unusual round section.
Stratosphere Tower
Las Vegas, Bvld Las Vegas South, 2000@ The highest building in Las Vegas, the most fun attractions of the "city of sin" and the most unforgettable view of the sultry Nevada - all this is the tower of the Stratosphere hotel-casino. Here it is possible to spend a whole day in peace and not regret a single minute
Griffith Park
Crystal Springs Dr, Los AngelesGriffith Park, jokingly Central The park of Los Angeles (by analogy with New York), occupies a fantastic area of 1,700 hectares - and this is in the center of one of the largest megacities of the USA. More than 10 million people visit the park during the year
San Francisco Cable Trolley
San FranciscoAn Amazing Means of Transport, with the same interest residents and visitors of San Francisco , cable trams, it seems, teleported to a super modern megapolis straight from the 19th century. The old carriages have been regularly plying the streets of Fran for the second century
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S Grand Ave, Los AngelesFlying Steel - one could describe the building of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Something between the Sydney Opera House and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the building was opened in 2003 and instantly became one of the city's most recognizable sights.
Lombard Street
San Francisco, Lombard streetEight steep turns on the Russian hill section 400 meters long and a slope of the surface to almost 30 degrees have made Lombard Street the most photographed street of San Frans.
Los Angeles - in many meaning one of the main cities and state of California, and the United States as a whole. LA is a large and lively city where rich museums, classical and modern art collections, various entertainments, modern hotels, posh restaurants, beaches and even a momentary opportunity to meet the stars of the first magnitude adjoin: it is here, to the north-west of the center, the legendary Hollywood
California Disneyland in the city of Anaheim is the very first Disney park, the opening of which took place already in 1955 . By the way, the opening of Disneyland was led by Ronald Reagan - then still only a talented actor, US resident .This embodied dream of Walt Disney continues to evolve, replenishing with the characters of modern cartoons and the latest attractions to still be the most desired resting place not only for children of all ages, but for any adult . In just over 60 years of its existence, over half a billion guests have visited here from around the world .
No less interesting is the city of San Francisco . Among the Californian sights the famous Golden Gates (Golden Gate), one of the most visited and ambiguous historical monuments - the former island prison of the maximum strict regime Alkatraz (Alcatraz), Pierce-39 with its chic restaurants famous for the amazing dishes from the freshest seafood, as well as the Museum of Modern Art and many examples of Victorian architecture . To get to know the city better, we recommend a ride on an old red tram on the sloping streets of the city with an excursion, whether to tickle the nerves, soaring above the ground on the cable car - in San Francisco, the only cable car in the world, still manually managed, has survived. .
There are probably few people left who have not heard about the famous Silicon or, more correctly, Silicon the valley of Silicon Valley, once famous for silicon - it was here that semiconductors began to be developed on its basis. Now it is famous as a place where Apple, Google, and Intel, with many other technology companies, headquartered, come to our world, and the famous Stanford University continues to work.
There are among the sights of California and the so-called Death Valley: the desert of 209 km in length and 22 km wide attracts many connoisseurs of nature . Here are the lowest point in North America Badwater (86 m below sea level), the highest point of the continental US Mount Whitney (4,421 meters), as well as an amazing place where you can find so-called moving stones - large and small boulders, self-rolling and leaving Long trails on the sand . Here is the Yosemite National Park, famous for its waterfalls and glaciers, as well as the deep fresh Lake Tahoe .