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主題樂園 / Theme Park
Knott’s Berry Farm – 諾氏莓園
成人：US$51.99 / 孩童 (3-11 歲)：US$22.99 / 老人(62 歲以上)：US$22.99
"America's #1 Theme Park," this entertaining amusement park is actually two parks in one: it
features a theme park and a water park. Visitors can enjoy a multitude of exciting rides and
water activities while at this park, as well as family shows and terrific food. The landscape of the
park is now dominated by the roller coasters, and much of the original theming and atmosphere
of the park have been disrupted. Ghost Town is the oldest part of the Knott's amusement park,
and includes most of the buildings Walter brought to the property in the 1940s and 1950s.More
recently, the much-acclaimed GhostRider wooden roller coaster has been added. In late 2004
Knott's opened the longest inverted roller coaster on the West Coast, Silver Bullet along with
Screamin' Swing: the world's first air-powered swing.
Disney Land – 迪士尼樂園
成人(10 歲以上)：US$69.00 / 孩童 (3-9 歲)：US$59.00
Disneyland is an American theme park in Anaheim, California. it consisted of five themed
areas.
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Main Street, U.S.A., an early 20th century Midwest town
It is the first area guests see when they enter the park, and is how guests reach Central
Plaza. At the center of The Magic Kingdom and immediately North of Central Plaza stands
Sleeping Beauty Castle, which provides entrance to Fantasyland by way of a drawbridge
across a moat. Adventureland, Frontierland, and Tomorrowland are arrayed on both sides of
the castle
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Adventureland, featuring jungle-themed adventures
Adventureland is designed to be an exotic tropical place in a far-off region of the world. "To
create a land that would make this dream reality", said Walt Disney, "we pictured ourselves
far from civilization, in the remote jungles of Asia and Africa." Attractions include opening
day's Jungle Cruise, the "Temple of the Forbidden Eye" in Indiana Jones Adventure is a
dark ride attraction at Disneyland. It opened on March 3, 1995. Based on the Indiana Jones
films, guests are taken on an adventure in modified military transport vehicles through a lost
temple with Indiana Jones.
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Frontierland, illustrating western frontier
Frontierland recreates the setting of pioneer days along the American frontier.
Entertainment and attractions include Fantasmic!, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (it’s a
relatively mild indoor/outdoor mine train roller coaster common in "Magic Kingdom"-style
Disney theme parks worldwide.), Mark Twain Riverboat, Frontierland Shootin' Exposition
and Sailing Ship Columbia.
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Fantasyland, bringing fantasy into a reality
Fantasyland is the area of Disneyland which Walt Disney said, "What youngster has not
dreamed of flying with Peter Pan over moonlit London, or tumbling into Alice's nonsensical
Wonderland. In Fantasyland, these classic stories of everyone's youth have become
realities for youngsters - of all ages - to participate in."
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Tomorrowland, looking into the future.
The Tomorrowland attractions have been designed to give you an opportunity to participate in
adventures that are a living blueprint of our future." Current attractions include Space Mountain,
Innoventions, Star Tours, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (is a 3-D film themed to the Honey, I
Shrunk the Kids film series.), Autopia, the Disneyland Monorail Tomorrowland Station, Astro
Orbitor and Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters. Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage opened on June
11, 2007, resurrecting the original Submarine Voyage which closed in 1998.
Since the initial opening, additional areas have been added:
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In 1966, New Orleans Square, based on 19th century New Orleans
It was opened to the public on July 24, 1966. Despite its age, it is still very popular with
Disneyland guests, being home to two of the park's most popular attractions: Pirates of the
Caribbean (During the course of the indoor boat ride, guests float through an immersing,
larger-than-life pirate adventure featuring gunshots, cannon blasts, and burning buildings,
all set to pirates carousing and pillaging while accompanied by the song “ Yo Ho “) and
Haunted Mansion (it’s a ride-through tour of a haunted house in Omnimover vehicles called
Doom Buggies).
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Critter Country opened in 1972 as "Bear Country", and was renamed in 1988. Formerly
the area was home to Indian Village where actual indigenous tribespeople demonstrated
their dances and other customs.
Today, the main draw of the area is Splash Mountain, a log-flume journey inspired by the
Uncle Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris and the animated segments of Disney's
Academy Award-winning 1946 film, Song of the South.
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In 1993, Mickey's Toontown, themed around the Toontown seen in the film Who
Framed Roger Rabbit
Mickey's Toontown is a 1930s cartoon come-to-life and is home to Disney's most popular
cartoon characters. Toontown features two main attractions: Gadget's Go Coaster and
Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin. The "city" is also home to cartoon character's houses such
as the house of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
Fireworks
Elaborate fireworks shows synchronized with Disney songs and often an appearance by the
Peter Pan character Tinker Bell. Recent presentations have become more elaborate, featuring
new pyrotechnics, launch techniques and story lines. In 2004, Disneyland introduced a new air
launch pyrotechnics system, reducing ground level smoke and noise and decreasing negative
environmental impacts. At the time the technology debuted, Disney announced it would donate
the patents to a non-profit organization for use throughout the industry.[10]
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1958–1999 Fantasy in the Sky
2000–2004 Believe... There's Magic in the Stars
2004–2005 Imagine... A Fantasy in the Sky
2005–Present Remember... Dreams Come True
During the Holiday Season, there is a special fireworks presentation called Believe... In Holiday
Magic which has been running since 2000, except for a short hiatus in 2005 during the park's
50th Celebration.
Parades
Disneyland has always had parades that have marched down Main Street. There are several
daytime and nighttime parades that celebrate Disney films or seasonal holidays with
characters, music, and large floats. One of the most popular parades was the Main Street
Electrical Parade (now at Disney's California Adventure as Disney's Electrical Parade).
Debuting in May 2005 as part of the Disneyland's 50th Anniversary, Walt Disney's Parade of
Dreams is presented, celebrating several of the classic Disney stories including The Lion King,
The Little Mermaid, Alice in Wonderland, and Pinocchio. During the holiday season, Disneyland
presents "A Christmas Fantasy" Parade which celebrates the joy & wonder of the holiday
season.
Disney California Adventure – 加州冒險樂園
成人(10 歲以上)：US$69.00 / 孩童 (3-9 歲)：US$59.00
This 55-acre theme park, opened on February 8, 2001, was constructed as part of a major
expansion that transformed the Disneyland area and its hotels into the Disneyland Resort and
consists of five areas: Sunshine Plaza, Hollywood Pictures Backlot, The Golden State, A Bug's
Land and Paradise Pier. Most of them are meant to resemble various aspects of California, its
culture, landmarks and history.
 Sunshine Plaza
A few meters into the park from the main gate is Sunshine Plaza that serves as an access hub
to all of the park's other themed lands. At the end of the path, there is a fountain featuring a
large metal sunburst designed to reflect solar rays into the surrounding area. The plaza is also
home to two of the park's biggest souvenir shops, Greetings from California and Engine Ears
Toys.
 Paradise Pier
Paradise Pier is themed after a California boardwalk, based on popular coastal boardwalks
such as the Santa Monica Pier and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Paradise Pier's
attractions consist of the classic amusement park rides found in many boardwalks such as the
California Screamin’, the Maliboomer, and the Orange Stinger. Toy Story Mania!, an interactive
attraction inspired by classic midway games and Disney's California Adventure Park's newest
attraction, featuring Pixar characters, opened on June 17, 2008.
 Golden Stat
This land allows guests to experience California's natural settings. It is further divided into five
sub-lands:
Condor Flats
This sub-land is themed after the aviation industry. The featured attraction here is Soarin’ over
California, a ride that simulates a hang glider tour of California.
Grizzly Peak Recreational Area
This sub-land is themed after California's wilderness, such as Yosemite and Redwood national
parks. Attractions include Grizzly River Run, a fast-paced river rapids ride around Grizzly Peak,
the park's icon. Nearby is the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail; an interactive playground area,
which also includes a show, housed in an amphitheater featuring characters from Disney's
Brother Bear, The Magic of Brother Bear. A special entrance to Disney's Grand Californian
Hotel is also located in this area.
The Bay Area
This sub-land is themed after the California Bay Area. It used to feature Golden Dreams, a film
about the history of California, starring Whoopi Goldberg housed in a theatre. Its last showing
was on September 7th, 2008. Outside of the theatre is a mural and a replica of the Palace of
Fine Arts. The Bay Area also includes an avenue of houses similar to the Victorian architecture
of many townhouses found in San Francisco. The main area is scheduled to be converted to
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Adventure, with construction expected to start in 2009.
The Golden Vine Winery
This sub-land is themed after Northern California's Napa Valley and the winemaking industry.
The former main attraction in this area, Seasons of the Vine, a film showcasing Napa Valley
and the changes throughout the seasons, housed in a wine cellar-like theatre, closed on March
30th, 2008 to be converted into the Walt Disney Imagineering Blue Sky Cellar, which opened in
October of 2008, that features the upcoming changes to the park. The exhibits will be rotated
every few months until 2012, when the major park improvement project is scheduled to be
finished. Guests also have the opportunity to taste several wines for an additional price.
Pacific Wharf
This sub-land is based on Monterey's Cannery Row area, especially as depicted in John
Steinbeck's novels, and also resembles San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.. This sub-land
also features attractions such as the Mission Tortilla Factory, which features a tour on how
tortillas were once made, and showcases working corn and flour tortilla machines. Another
attraction is the Boudin Bakery Tour, which is a tour of the sourdough bread making process
with Rosie O'Donnell and Colin Mochrie as video tour guides.
 Hollywood Pictures Backlot
It’s an area styled to appear as Hollywood boulevards and movie backlots, with Hollywood,
Television, and movie-themed attractions. A version of the Tower of Terror attraction from
Disney's Hollywood Studios opened in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot in 2004. Recently, a new
attraction, Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! based on the characters from Monsters,
Inc. opened in the attraction building that housed Superstar Limo. The 2000-seat Hyperion
Theatre currently plays host to Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular.
Also featured since the park's opening is Muppet Vision 3-D, a show that also originated at
Disney's Hollywood Studios.
 A Bug's Land
"A Bug's Land" is seen from the point of view of a bug, and the character of "Flik" from A Bug's
Life. Oversized human items and foodstuffs are scattered around the land. This land features
Flik's Fun Fair, It's Tough to be a Bug! and the Bountiful Valley Farm, based on the DisneyPixar film "a bug's life". The land opened in 2003 and offers various kid-friendly rides and other
attractions. Such rides including Fliks Flyers, Francis' Ladybug Boogie, Tuck & Rolls Drive em'
Buggies, Heimlichs Chew Chew Train, and Dots Puddle Park.
Performance Corridor- Disney's Electrical Parade
The Performance Corridor is the primary parade route through the park, currently from the
Sunshine Plaza area to the Route 66 area near the Orange Stinger. This route is subject to
change due to the scheduled changes in the parks offerings.
The Disney's Electrical Parade is offered on peak periods, this traditionally consists of the
Easter/Spring Break period, summer months, and last few weeks leading up to New Years.
There is also a High School Musical performance, usually 3 trips down the Corridor per day.
Universal Studio – 環球影城
票價：US$69.00
Universal Studios Hollywood is a movie studio in the Universal City community of
unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is the original Universal
Studios theme park. It is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood movie studios still in
use. Its official marketing headline is "The Entertainment Capital of LA", though during the
summer it is often advertised as "The Coolest Place in LA." It was initially created to offer tours
of the real Universal Studios soundstages and sets.
The attractions at Universal Studios Hollywood are split into two areas on different levels,
connected by a series of escalators called the Starway.
Upper lot
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Waterworld: A Live Sea War Spectacular
It’s based on the 1995 film Waterworld. It opened at the same time as the film, and even
though the film was considered by many to be a flop, the show is very highly praised. The
front seats are the wet zones. The show itself is a shorter retelling of the story featuring lots
of special effects, including the landing of the sea plane.
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Shrek 4-D
The short film takes place right after the first Shrek film. In it, the spirit of Lord Farquaad returns
from the dead to kidnap Princess Fiona. Therefore, it is up to Shrek and Donkey to rescue her.
Although the animation is 3-D, the ride is a 4-D film, which means it is designed to make
viewers feel what they are watching. For example when Donkey sneezes, the front of the seats
spray mist into viewers' face. It also has movable seats, air jets and rubber tubing, to simulate
other effects such as air, "creepy crawlies" and other movements.
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The Adventures of Curious George
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Studio Tour
The world-famous Studio Tour, which lasts about 45 minutes, is led by a tour guide and travels
through the Front Lot, Backlot and various attractions. Along the way are sets and props from
many famous movies. The Tour is the signature attraction at the Universal Studios Hollywood
theme park, and unlike many other theme park studio tours, goes into the heart of a busy,
working movie studio.
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The Simpsons Ride
It’s a simulator ride which based on the animated television series The Simpsons. It was first
announced in 2007 and replaced the Back to the Future: The Ride.
The ride itself is six minutes long, but original footage for the ride can be seen in the queue,
and there is also a pre-show video. In the ride, patrons are introduced to a cartoon theme
park called Krustyland built by Krusty the Clown. Sideshow Bob, however, is loose from
prison to get revenge on Krusty and the Simpson family.
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Creature from the Black Lagoon- The Musical (Coming Spring 2009)
Universal's Animal Actors
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time
The Blues Brothers
Universal's House of Horrors
This attraction features real-live performers dressed up as characters from Universal's
horror films including The Mummy, The Wolfman, Chucky from Child's Play, Mother Bates
from Psycho, Zombies from Dawn of the Dead, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera,
Nosferatu, and other characters. The performers inside the maze jump out and scare guests
as they walk through the various "sets" from the films.
Lower lot
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Jurassic Park : The Ride
This ride based on Steven Spielberg's hit movie Jurassic Park. It begins as a jungle river
cruise past huge dinosaurs. In the end the raft plunges down an 85ft near-vertical drop.
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Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride
It’s an indoor steel/dark ride roller coaster which lasts 2 minutes. The ride features warrior
mummies, treasures and tombs, a sudden launch, a scarab beetle attack, forwards and
backwards motion and surround sound speakers inside the vehicles. Hollywood's coaster
was built in the former E.T. Adventure building.
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Backdraft
Where visitors can learn how the pyrotechnic effects were created and experience some of
them first hand.
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Special Effects Stages
The Universal Experience
Transformers (coming 2011)
Six Flags Magic Mountain – 六旗魔術山
票價：US$59.00
It’s an amusement park which full of roller coasters in the park.
熱門景點 / Major Attractions
Mann’s Chinese Theatre 中國戲院
It has since been home to many premieres, birthday parties, corporate junkets and three
Academy Awards ceremonies. Among the theatre's most distinctive features are the concrete
blocks set in the forecourt, which bear the signatures, footprints, and handprints of popular
motion picture personalities from the 1920s to the present day.
Hollywood and Highland 好萊塢與高地娛樂廣場
The Hollywood & Highland Center is an entertainment, retail and hotel complex at
Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Hollywood. The 387,000-square-foot
(36,000 m2) center also includes the Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the Kodak Theatre,
home to the Academy Awards. The historic site was once the home of the famed Hollywood
Hotel. Located in the heart of Hollywood, it is among the most visited tourist destinations in
Los Angeles.
The complex sits just opposite of the El Capitan Theatre and offers views of the Hollywood
Hills and Hollywood Sign to the north, Santa Monica Mountains to the west and downtown
Los Angeles to the east. The centerpiece of the complex is a massive three-story courtyard
inspired by the Babylon scene from the D.W. Griffith film Intolerance. The developer of the
shopping center built part of the archway and 2 pillars with elephant sculptures on the
capitals, just as seen in the film, to the same full scale. It gives visitors an idea of how large
the original set must have been. [1]
Tenants include 75 shops and restaurants, a movie theater, The Highlands nightclub and a
bowling alley called Lucky Strike Lanes. The portion of the center facing Hollywood
Boulevard houses retail tenants such as GAP, American Eagle, Banana Republic, Build-ABear Workshop, Sephora, Swatch, Express, and Hollywood's second Virgin Megastore,
which opened in early fall 2005.
Hollywood & Highland also houses 65,000 square feet (6,000 m2) of gathering spaces
including the Grand Ballroom, used for the Oscars Governors Ball. The chef Wolfgang Puck
operates his regional headquarters out of the complex. The center also includes television
broadcast facilities that in 2004 included the studios for the daily talk show On Air With Ryan
Seacrest.
Kodak Theatre 柯達戲院
The Kodak Theatre is a live theatre in the Hollywood and Highland retail, dining, and
entertainment complex on Hollywood Boulevard and North Highland Avenue in Hollywood.
Since its opening on November 9, 2001, the theatre has been the home of the annual
Academy Awards Ceremonies (The Oscars), which were first held there in March 2002, and
is the first permanent home for the awards.
The theatre was designed by David Rockwell of the Rockwell Group, and Theatre Projects
Consultants specifically with the Oscars in mind. It has a seating capacity for up to 3,401
people and the stage is one of the largest in the United States. The theatre was sponsored by
the Kodak company, which paid $75 million to have its name associated with the building.
The Grand Staircase entrance columns hall to the Kodak Theatre is flanked by columns
displaying the names of winners of the Academy Awards for Best Picture since 1927-1928,
with blank spaces left for future Best Picture winners well into the 21st century. Still, a visitor
during the rest of the year might have a hard time recognizing the landmark. In a fashion
reminiscent of Hollywood's moviemaking process, the building is "dressed" before the
ceremony, including a different sign (though not always), drapery to hide all the storefronts,
and the famous large red carpet.
The theatre is rented to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for weeks before
the Oscar night. During the rest of the year, it hosts numerous live concerts, award shows,
symphony performances and others.
Walk of Fame 星光大道
It’s a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood that serves as an
entertainment hall of fame. Designed by Southern Californian artist Oliver Weismuller, who
was hired by the city in 1953 to give Hollywood a "face lift", the Hollywood Walk of Fame
represented one of a number of improvements the city undertook at the time. The Walk of
Fame began with 2,500 blank stars. A total of 1,558 stars were awarded during its first
sixteen months. Since then, about two stars have been added per month. By 1994, more
than 2,000 of the original stars were filled, and additional stars extended the Walk west past
Sycamore to La Brea Avenue, where it now ends at the Silver Four Ladies of Hollywood
Gazebo (with stars honoring The Beatles and Elvis Presley).
Beverly Hills 比佛利山莊
Beverly Hills contains some of the largest homes in Los Angeles County and the nation.
These homes range from the extravagant and luxurious in size, to the more elegant and
modern homes, and then to the many small duplex rental units and detached homes with less
than 3,000 sq ft (280 sq meters). The city's average household income is just over $87,000.
Rodeo Drive 羅德歐大道
It’s a shopping district famous for designer label and haute couture fashion. The name
generally refers to a three-block long stretch of boutiques and shops but the street stretches
further north and south.
Huntington Library 杭庭頓花園美術館
成人：US$20 / 學生 (12-18 歲)：US$10 / 孩童：US$6 / 老人(62 歲以上)：US$15
In addition to the library, the site houses an art collection strong in English portraits and
French eighteenth-century furniture and botanical gardens that feature North America's
strongest collection of cycads.
The library contains an extensive collection of rare books and manuscripts, including a
Gutenberg Bible, the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer, and thousands of historical
documents about Abraham Lincoln including the papers of the president's bodyguard Ward
Hill Lamon. The rare books and manuscripts in the library are among the most heavily-used
in the United States. It is the only library in the world with the first two quartos of Hamlet; it
holds the manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, the first seven drafts of Henry
David Thoreau's Walden, John James Audubon's Birds of America, a collection of
manuscripts and first editions of the works of Charles Bukowski and many other great
treasures.
The library often places these and similar items on view for the general public; however,
actual use of the collection is extremely restricted, generally requiring at least candidacy for a
doctoral degree and letters of recommendation from known scholars. Nevertheless, these
precautions are understandable given the delicate and rare nature of the materials.
The art collection consists of the works of 18th and 19th century British and French artists,
and 18th, 19th, and early 20th century American artists, as well as changing exhibitions. The
best known works in the collection are The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough and Sarah
Barrett Moulton: "Pinkie" by Thomas Lawrence.
The Huntington's superb botanical gardens cover 120 acres (485,624 m²) and the theme
gardens contain rare plants from around the world. The gardens are divided into more than a
dozen themes, including the Australian Garden, Camellia Collection, Children's Garden,
Desert Garden Conservatory, Conservatory for Botanical Science, Desert Garden, Herb
Garden, Japanese Garden, Lily Pond, North Vista, Palm Garden, Rose Garden,
Shakespeare garden, Subtropical and Jungle Garden and a Chinese Garden (Liu Fang Yuan
流芳園 or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance) now open in the northern end of the property. In
addition, a large open field planted with Eucalyptus trees serves as a re-created "Australian
Outback." The Huntington has a program to protect and propagate endangered plant species.
In 1999 and 2002, a specimen of Amorphophallus titanum, or "corpse flower", bloomed at the
facility.
The Huntington Desert Garden, one of the world's largest and oldest collections of cacti and
other succulents, contains plants from extreme environments, many of which were acquired
by Mr. Huntington and Mr. William Hertrich (the garden curator) in trips taken to several
countries in North, Central and South America. One of the Huntington’s most botanically
important gardens, the Desert Garden, idealized by Mr. Hertrich, brings together a plant
group largely unknown and unappreciated in the beginning of the 1900s. Containing a broad
category of xerophytes (aridity-adapted plants), the Desert Garden grew to preeminence and
remains today among the world’s finest, with more than 5,000 species, including cacti and
succulent plants, or plants that store water in leaf, stem or root.
J. Paul Getty Museum 蓋帝美術館
The J. Paul Getty Museum, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is an art museum[1]. It has
two locations, one at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California and one at the Getty Villa in
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. The museum at the Getty Center contains
"Western art from the Middle Ages to the present"; its estimated 1.3 million visitors annually
makes it one of the most visited museums in the United States. The museum at the Getty
Villa contains art from "ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria".
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Getty Center
The museum's permanent collection includes "pre-20th-century European paintings,
drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20thcentury American and European photographs". Among the works on display is the
painting Irises by Vincent van Gogh. The Center, which opened on December 16, 1997,
is also well-known for its architecture, gardens, and view (overlooking Los Angeles).
 Getty Villa
The Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts
and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and Etruria. In 1974, Getty opened the Getty Villa
as his second museum in a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum,
incorporating additional details from several other ancient sites. In 1997 the museum's
collection was moved to the Getty Center in nearby Brentwood and the Palisades
museum, renamed the "Getty Villa", was closed for renovation.Reopened on January
28, 2006, the Getty Villa once again holds Greek and Roman sculptures housed in the
interim at the Getty Center. The Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities are arranged
by themes including Gods and Goddesses, Dionysos and the Theater and Stories of the
Trojan War, housed within Roman-inspired architecture and surrounded by Roman-style
gardens. The new architectural plan surrounding the Villa is designed to simulate an
archaeological dig.
Bowers Museum
is a museum in Santa Ana, California, in Orange County. It has existed for nearly 70 years. It
is one of 750 museums in America accredited by the American Association of Museums, and
is the only museum in the United States to partner with the British Museum. It has on display
permanent collections of Central American native artifacts and paintings of local, Californian
scenes. It also has a temporary exhibition space, a courtyard, a children's museum section,
and a restaurant.
Norton Simon Museum
The Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena holds one of the world's finest and most
prestigious collections of art. Reflecting the extraordinary effort and vision of its founder, it
stands as a tribute to Human Civilizations, the visual arts, and the nobility of individual
accomplishment.
The permanent collections consist of Western and Asian art from a period spanning more
than 2,000 years. European and American masterpieces including paintings, sculpture,
works on paper and photography are complemented by stunning art works from India and
Southeast Asia. The Museum holds an extensive print collection, which includes rare
etchings by Rembrandt and Goya as well as a comprehensive collection of Picasso
graphics. The collection also includes the Galka E. Scheyer Collection of works by the Blue
Four artists: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky and Klee.
The 19th Century is well-represented, and paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Gustave Courbet,
Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Cézanne and most of the Impressionists are shown. Visitors also
find a great number of sculptures and paintings by Edgar Degas.
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opened in Exposition Park, Los Angeles,
California, USA in 1913 as the Museum of History, Science, and Art.
The museum is the largest in the western United States, and its collections include nearly 33
million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history. The museum maintains
research and collections in the following fields:
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Annelida
Archaeology
Ethnology
Botany
Crustacea
Echinoderms
Entomology
Herpetology
History
Ichthyology
Invertebrate paleontology
Malacology
Mammalogy
Mineralogy
Ornithology
Vertebrate paleontology
The museum has three floors of permanent exhibits. Among the most popular museum
displays are those devoted to animal habitats, dinosaurs, pre-Columbian cultures, and the
Ralph M. Parsons Discovery Center and Insect Zoo.
The museum's collections are strong in many fields, but the mineralogy and Pleistocene
paleontology are the most esteemed, the latter thanks to the wealth of specimens collected
from the famed La Brea Tar Pits.
Over the years, the museum has built additions onto its original building. The domed rotunda
features a bronze sculpture of the three Muses holding up the world, representing the three
subject areas to which the museum was dedicated in 1913. This hall is among the most
distinctive locales in Los Angeles and has often been used as a filming location.
Petersen Automotive Museum
One of the world's largest automotive museums, the Petersen Automotive Museum is a nonprofit organization specializing in the education and history of the automobile.
The museum can display over 100 vehicles and owns over twice that. The ground floor
displays a virtual history of the automobile in Los Angeles, complete with vintage vehicles
and buildings. The second floor houses both permanent and special exhibits. The third floor
features the May Family Children's Discovery Center, a hands-on exhibit for children to learn
science through the workings of a car. The fourth floor houses an all-glass penthouse
conference center, Founder's lounge and kitchen for corporate and private use.
Autry National Center
The Autry National Center is an intercultural history center focused on the American West,
made up of two museums and the Institute for the Study of the American West.
In January 2004, the Museum of the American West merged with the Southwest Museum of
the American Indian and the Women of the West Museum to form the Autry National Center.
The Southwest Museum is a museum, library, and archive located in the Mt. Washington
area of Los Angeles, California. Its collections deal mainly with the American Indian.
However, it also has an extensive collection of pre-Hispanic, Spanish colonial, Latino, and
Western American art and artifacts.
Major collections include rooms devoted to
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American Indians of California
American Indians of the Northwest Coast.
Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with
three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand
Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's original space,
initially intended as a "temporary" exhibit space while the main facility was built, is now known
as the Geffen Contemporary, in the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles. The Pacific
Design Center facility is in nearby West Hollywood.
The museum's exhibits consist primarily of American and European contemporary art created
since 1940.
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MOCA Grand Avenue
The MOCA downtown Los Angeles location is home to almost 5,000 artworks created
since 1940, including masterpieces by classic contemporary artists, and inspiring new
works by emerging and mid-career artists from Southern California and around the world.
The MOCA is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art.
The Grand Avenue location is used to display pieces from MOCA's substantial permanent
collection, especially artists who did much of their work between 1940 and 1980. Included
within the permanent collection are works by influential artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat,
Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Kim Dingle, Sam Durant,Sam Francis, Arshile
Gorky, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes
Martin, Piet Mondrian, Robert Motherwell, Elizabeth Murray, Claes Oldenburg, Raymond
Pettibon, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Julian Schnabel, George
Segal, Joel Shapiro, Frank Stella, and Cy Twombly.
There is also an extensive set of rooms used to display temporary exhibits, usually a major
retrospective of an important artist, or works connected by a theme.
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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
The site is the largest of the three MOCA locations and is ideally suited to large-scale
sculptural works and conceptual, multi-media or electronic installations. It is typically used to
display more recent works, often by lesser known artists, and works which require a large
amount of space. Some of these works are designed specifically for the Geffen
Contemporary's space.
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MOCA at The Pacific Design Center
In 2000, MOCA opened a 3,000 square ft. exhibition space at the Pacific Design Center to
present new work by emerging and established artists as well as ancillary programs based
upon its major exhibitions and renowned permanent collection. MOCA also utilizes the 384seat PDC auditorium for a range of public programs.
The Pacific Design Center, a 1.2 million square foot landmark building designed by Cesar
Pelli & Associates in West Hollywood, features showrooms of traditional and contemporary
furnishings.
Hollywood Wax Museum
The displays house some 180 wax figures[1] of movie stars, television personalities and
characters such as Nintendo's Mario and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There is also a
Chamber of Horrors, featuring classic movie monsters and scenes of torture.
Some of the sets include:
Hollywood Icons (classic buildings of Hollywood with celebrities on the red carpet)
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Halle Berry
Ben Affleck
Angelina Jolie
Matthew McConaughey
Jude Law
Hugh Jackman
Samuel L. Jackson
Gwenyth Paltrow
Classic Stars
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Marilyn Monroe
Charlie Chaplin
John Wayne
Judy Garland in *Wizard of Oz
Top 100 Movies of All Time:
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King Kong with *Jack Black and *Naomi Watts
Mission Impossible II with *Tom Cruise
Titanic with *Leonardo DiCaprio
Men in Black with *Will Smith and *Tommy Lee Jones
Terminator 2: Judgment Day with *Arnold Schwarzenegger
Spider-Man with *Tobey Maguire and *Kirsten Dunst
Forrest Gump with *Tom Hanks
Heritage Square Museum
It’s a living history museum that tells the story of the development of Southern California
through architecture. Eight historic structures, a train car, and a trolly car were all saved from
demolition and moved to the site between 1969 - 2005. The museum focuses its efforts on
interpreting the years 1850 to 1950, a period of unprecedented growth in Los Angeles.
Volunteer interpreters give thorough tours that incorporate the history, architecture, and
culture of the region. Other specialized living history events, lectures, and items of historical
interest are given on a periodic basis.
California African American Museum
It includes three exhibition galleries, a theater gallery, a 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2)
sculpture court, a conference center special events room, an archive and research library.
Behind the scenes there are administration offices, exhibit design and artifact storage areas.
The California African American Museum (CAAM) exists to research, collect, preserve and
interpret for public enrichment, the history, art and culture of African Americans. The museum
conserves more than 3,500 objects of art, historical artifacts and memorabilia, and maintains
a research library with more than 20,000 books and other reference materials available for
limited public use.
The permanent collection includes paintings, photographs, sculpture and artifacts
representing the diverse contributions of African Americans. The collection ranges from
African art to 19th-century landscape. Along with its permanent collection, CAAM hosts
specially mounted exhibitions curated out of its own collection, as well as traveling exhibitions
from other museums. Recent exhibitions include: "The Whole World's Watching: Peace and
Social Justice Movements of the 60's and 70's," "Milton Bowens' Writings on the Walls,"
"National Pastime in Black and White: The Negro Baseball Leagues," "Azucar! The Life and
Music of Celia Cruz," "Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide: Portraits of Survival and Hope,"
"Intersections of South Central: People and Places in Historic and Contemporary
Photographs," and "In the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of
Bernard and Shirley Kinsey."
Museum of Neon Art
The Museum of Neon Art (MONA) is a museum at 136 West Fourth Street in Los Angeles,
California, devoted to art built using neon lighting. This includes preservation of old neon
signs as well as display of original fine art.
The museum was founded in 1981 by Lili Lakich and Richard Jenkins.
Birch Aquarium
Set against a breathtaking view of the Pacific Ocean, the Birch Aquarium at Scripps is home
to more than 350 species of marine life found in waters from the cold Pacific Northwest to the
warm tropical reefs of the South Pacific. Forty-six tanks range in size from a 70,000-gallon recreated kelp forest to small nursery tanks. The aquarium also features a man-made tide pool
that stimulates an awareness in visitors of the fragility of San Diego's intertidal environments.
The Birch Aquarium provides ocean science education, interprets research conducted at
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and promotes ocean conservation. This coastal facility
is also home to the country's largest oceanographic museum. Hands-on exhibits educate
visitors about the ocean, earth sciences, and historical and current oceanographic research.
Other interesting exhibits include a simulated submersible ride, and up-to-the-minute
earthquake data center, and an "Ocean Supermarket," where visitors can scan grocery items
to learn what ingredients come from the sea. Classes and programs for all ages provide
visitors opportunities for more in-depth interaction with marine life at the aquarium and in the
wild. The Birch Aquarium also hosts annual events that educate the public on various marine
animals, such as gray whales and sharks.
At 64,157 square feet (5,960.4 m2), Birch Aquarium at Scripps is designed around a central
lobby with entrances to exhibit areas. Display tanks contain 175,000 gallons of seawater.
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Hall of Fishes, featuring more than 60 tanks of Pacific fishes and invertebrates from
the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest to the tropical waters of Mexico and the
Caribbean. The largest habitat is a 70,000-gallon kelp tank forest. The tank can be
viewed live online through the Kelp Cam.
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Shark Reef, a 13,000-gallon tank with shark species that inhabit tropical reef habitats,
including whitetip and blacktip reef sharks, brownbanded bamboo sharks, Port
Jackson sharks, and wobbegongs. Interpretive panels on shark biology and
conservation accompany the reef.
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Tide Pool Plaza, featuring three living tide pools where visitors can touch and learn
about tide-pool animals with docents. Windows in the habitats provide up-close views
of starfish, hermit crabs, sea cucumbers, lobsters, and other animals local to San
Diego's tide pools. The tide pool overlooks La Jolla and the Pacific Ocean.
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Coral Reef, featuring live coral and reef inhabitants such as lionfish, chambered
nautilus, and giant clams. The gallery has interactive displays on the latest Scripps
research on coral reefs around the world. The staff creates live corals for aquarium
displays without harming natural coral reefs.
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The Art of Deception showcases marine creatures that use camouflage for survival,
including frogs, fish and leafy sea dragons.
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Wonders of Water allows visitors to learn about erosion, water flow, and ocean
currents by creating rapids, canals, dams and islands at interactive water stations.
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Feeling the Heat The Climate Challenge presents the science of global warming and
highlights Scripps Institution of Oceanography's half-century of research on climate
change. Through interactive activities, the exhibit shows visitors current environmental
changes and those projected for the future. It also presents the latest ideas for
reducing carbon emissions. In fall 2007, the exhibit was named the Silver winner in
museum design for the 2007 Event Design Awards. Sponsored by Connecticut-based
Event Design Magazine, the annual awards recognize the best designs worldwide
across events, exhibits and environments.
San Diego Wild Animal Park
Located 32 miles northeast of the Zoo, the Wild Animal Park is 20 times larger and an entirely
different experience! This 1,800-acre wildlife preserve was established in 1969 under the
directorship of Dr. Charles Schroeder. It opened to the public in 1972, and allows visitors to
view herds of exotic animals s they might occur in their native homelands of Africa or Asia.
The Wgasa Bush Line, a silent electronic monorail, skirts the edge of the Savannah and
offers five miles of unobstructed views of elephants, antelope, rhinos, and giraffes. Soon to
open is Heart of Africa which will offer guests the opportunity to take a walking safari for an
even closer view.
San Diego Zoo
The 100-acre Zoo was founded in 1916, by a colorful and extremely enterprising local
physician, Dr. Harry Wegeforth. He gathered a collection of 50 animals from various local
menageries and hired a single keeper named Army, "who had one arm but it was all he
needed." Today the Zoo cares for 3,800 animals (800 different species) and employs 115
individuals to care for them. The total staff numbers more than 1,000.
The Zoo has opened several new natural habitats in recent years: Tiger River, Sun Bear
Forest, Scripps Aviary, Gorilla Tropics, Pygmy Chimpanzees, Raptors, Australasian Birds,
Hippo Beach, and Polar Bear Plunge. And of course you'll want to see the two important
visitors that now reside at the Panda Research Station.
SeaWorld San Diego
SeaWorld San Diego ranks in the top 10 theme parks in California. SeaWorld not only
features thrill rides and amusements, it also offers many family fun shows with sea mammals,
oceanic creatures and lots of things for kids to enjoy in a kid-friendly, vacation destination
theme park in San Diego, California. SeaWorld sits next to Mission Bay with many
attractions, shops and restaurants overlooking Mission Bay. The setting is spectacular for this
family fun attraction.
The Living Desert
Discover The Living Desert's 1,200 acres of blooming, scampering, flying, howling
fun. Native & exotic animals from the world's deserts, botanical gardens, Wildlife Wonders
animal shows and Hands-on Discovery Room in one of the most successful zoological
parks in the country.
Within its 1,200 acres you will discover nearly 400 fascinating desert animals representing
over 150 species including coyotes, bighorn sheep, oryx, zebras, cheetahs and meerkats.
There are lush botanical gardens representing 10 different desert ecosystems and a journey
to "Eagle Canyon," with its streams, mountain lions, bobcats, Mexican wolves and golden
eagles is a definite "must see." Wilderness hiking trails, Native American exhibits and special
events attract over 275,000 visitors annually, making The Living Desert one of the Coachella
Valley's top tourist destinations.
Aquarium of the Pacific
The Aquarium features a collection of over 12,500 animals representing over 650 different
species. The facility focuses on the Pacific Ocean in three major permanent galleries, sunny
Southern California and Baja, the frigid waters of the Northern Pacific and the colorful reefs of
the Tropical Pacific. Popular exhibits at the Aquarium also include the Aquarium's interactive
Shark Lagoon (guests can pet sharks and sting rays) and Lorikeet Forest (guests can feed
nectar to colorful lorikeet birds). Exhibits at the Aquarium introduce the inhabitants and
seascapes of the Pacific, while also focusing on specific conservation messages associated
with each region. Exhibits range in size and capacity from about 5,000 to 350,000 gallons.
Activities of the Aquarium of the Pacific employees and volunteers extend far beyond
exhibits. The diverse marine science and conservation ventures include: breeding and
conservation programs for endangered marine animals and habitats; housing of unreleasable
seals, sea lions, and sea otters from local care centers and marine parks; beach and habitat
cleanups; a variety of green business practices; and continuing efforts to educate visitors on
the importance the ocean, its threats, and conservation, including the hazards of pollution,
over-harvesting, and habitat destruction; and global climate change.
LA Zoo
It has been successful in its breeding program of the rare California Condor, helping to grow
the number of condors in the world from a low of 22 in the 1980s to 330 today.
Among the highlights of the public zoo grounds are naturalistic habitats for chimpanzees,
orangutans, koalas and for the komodo dragon.
Major construction is currently underway. A new gorilla exhibit opened in November 2007,
and there will be new monkey, elephant and rain forest exhibits in the next several years.
Santa Ana Zoo
The zoo opened in 1952 and is owned and operated by the City of Santa Ana. Joseph
Prentice donated land for the zoo with the stipulation that the city must keep at least 50
monkeys at all times, the zoo maintains an extensive primate collection with over a dozen
species from around the world.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
One of the largest aquariums in the world. It has an annual attendance of 1.8 million and
holds 35,000 plants and animals representing 623 species.
Among the aquarium's numerous exhibits, two are of particular note. The centerpiece of the
Ocean's Edge wing is a 33-foot (10-m) high tank for viewing California coastal marine life. In
this tank, the aquarium was the first in the world to grow live California Giant Kelp using a
wave machine at the top of the tank (water movement is a necessary precondition for
keeping Giant Kelp, which absorbs nutrients from surrounding water and requires turbidity),
allowing sunlight in through the open tank top, and pumping in raw seawater. The second
exhibit of note is a one million gallon tank in the Outer Bay Wing which features one of the
world's largest single-paned windows (crafted by a Japanese company, the window is
actually four panes seamlessly glued together through a proprietary process).
Sealife on exhibit includes stingrays, jellyfish, sea otters, and numerous other native marine
species, which can be viewed above and below the waterline. For displaying jellyfish, the
MBA uses an aquarium called a Kreisel tank which creates a circular flow to support and
suspend the jellies. Visitors are able to inspect the creatures of the kelp forest at several
levels in the building.
Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided gorge carved by the Colorado River in the United States
state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park — one of the
first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major
proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited on numerous occasions to
hunt and enjoy the scenery.
Longstanding scientific consensus has been that the canyon was created by the Colorado
River over a six million year period. The canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, ranges in width
from 4 to 18 miles (6.4 to 29 km) and attains a depth of over a mile (1.83 km)(6000
feet).Nearly two billion years of the Earth's history have been exposed as the Colorado River
and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado
Plateau was uplifted. The "canyon started from the west, then another formed from the east,
and the two broke through and met as a single majestic rent in the earth some six million
years ago. [...] The merger apparently occurred where the river today, coming from the north,
bends to the west, in the area known as the Kaibab Arch."
Prior to European emigration, the area was inhabited by Native Americans who built
settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand
Canyon ("Ongtupqa" in Hopi language) a holy site and made pilgrimages to it. The first
European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from
Spain, who arrived in 1540. In 1869, Major John Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War
veteran made the first recorded journey through the canyon on the Colorado River. Powell
referred to the sedimentary rock units exposed in the canyon as "leaves in a great story
book".
Las Vegas
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an
internationally renowned major resort city for the gaming industry, shopping, and
entertainment. Las Vegas, billed as The Entertainment Capital of the World, is famous for the
number of large casino resorts and their associated entertainment. The city's tolerance for
various forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and this image has made
Las Vegas a popular setting for films and television programs. Outdoor lighting displays are
everywhere on the Las Vegas Strip and are seen elsewhere in the city as well; as seen from
space, Las Vegas is the brightest city on earth.
Established in 1905, Las Vegas officially became a city in 1911. With the growth that
followed, at the close of the century Las Vegas was the most populous American city founded
in the 20th century (a distinction held by Chicago in the 19th century). It was the 28th most
populous city in the United States with an estimated population of 558,880 as of 2007. The
population of the Las Vegas metropolitan area exceeds 2 million residents.
The name Las Vegas is often applied to unincorporated suburbs of Clark County that
surround the city, especially the resort areas on and near the Las Vegas Strip. This 4.5-mile
(7.2-km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard is mostly outside the city limits, in the
unincorporated communities of Paradise and Winchester.
The major attractions in Las Vegas are the casinos. The most famous hotels are located on
Las Vegas Boulevard, better known as the Las Vegas Strip. Many of these hotels carry
thousands of rooms. There are, of course, large casino areas in these hotels as well. There
are many hotel casinos in the city's downtown area as well, which was the original focal point
of the city's gaming industry in its early days. Several large hotels and casinos are also
located somewhat off the Strip but adjacent to it, as well as in the county around the city.
Palm Spring
The Palm Springs Aerial opened in September 1963 as a way of getting from the floor of the
Coachella Valley to near the top of San Jacinto Peak. Prior to its construction, the only way to
the top of the mountain was to hike for several hours from Idyllwild.
Today, the tram is one of the biggest attractions in Southern California. The eight-and-a-halfminute ride beginning at the Valley Station up North America's sheerest mountain face
passes through several life zones on its way to the mountain station at 8516 feet (2600 m)
above mean sea level. The trip has been likened in terms of geologic and climatic change to
a motor trip from Sonora to the Canadian tundra.
Passengers disembark at the Mountain Station in the alpine wilderness of Long Valley and
Mount San Jacinto State Park. The air can be as much as 40°F (25°C) cooler at the top than
in the desert. Visitors can walk along nature trails, take a burro ride or even play in the snow
during the winter months. Back-country hiking can be done with a permit from the U.S. Forest
Service. There are two restaurants at the summit, one of which specializes in fine dining.
Both stations have gift shops specializing in Aerial Tramway-related merchandise as well as
educational toys.
The view at the top can stretch northward for more than 200 miles (300 km) on a clear day,
all the way to Mount Charleston north of Las Vegas. Views to the east and west can stretch
as far as 75 miles (120 km); the Salton Sea is plainly visible to the southeast.