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The Getty Center
The Getty Center opened in 1997 after more than a decade of construction, built on a hilltop site in the Santa Monica Mountains specifically chosen by oil magnate J. Paul Getty's namesake trust to house both an art museum and the Getty's broader conservation and research institutes under one architecturally unified campus designed by Richard Meier. Meier's building complex, clad in more than a million square feet of travertine stone imported from Italy, was designed with a deliberately restrained white palette specifically to let the surrounding gardens and the art inside provide the visual color, a choice that's made the building itself as much a destination as its collection. The Getty's tram system, which carries visitors up the hillside from the parking structure to the museum campus, was built as a deliberate design choice to slow arrival down and create a sense of anticipation and separation from the city below — an unusual piece of visitor-experience engineering for an American museum. For a Los Angeles attractions list, the Getty Center is the essential "the art, the architecture, and the view, all at once" entry — a billion-dollar hilltop campus whose Richard Meier-designed buildings and gardens draw visitors as much as the European paintings inside.
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Hollywood Sign
The Hollywood Sign originally read "HOLLYWOODLAND" when it was erected in 1923 as a temporary advertisement for a new real estate development in the hills above Los Angeles, and it wasn't until a 1949 restoration — after the sign had fallen into serious disrepair — that the last four letters were removed, permanently shortening it to the "HOLLYWOOD" now recognized worldwide. Each letter stands roughly 45 feet tall, and the sign's dramatic hillside position on Mount Lee, visible from large swaths of the Los Angeles basin, made it a natural symbol for the entire film industry even though it was never actually built to represent Hollywood or the movie business at all. The sign's condition became genuinely dire by the late 1970s, prompting a 1978 fundraising campaign — backed by celebrities including Hugh Hefner and Alice Cooper, who each sponsored the replacement of individual letters — that rebuilt the entire structure from scratch using steel rather than the original wood and sheet metal. For a Los Angeles attractions list, the Hollywood Sign is the essential "the symbol before the substance" entry — a 1923 real estate ad that outlived the development it advertised to become the single most recognized shorthand for the entire film industry.
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