The RMS Queen Mary is the centrepiece of Long Beach's waterfront — a 310-metre Cunard ocean liner permanently moored at the end of the Queensway Bay channel. She made her maiden voyage in 1936 and crossed the Atlantic more than 1,000 times before being retired to Long Beach in 1967. Today you can tour the ship's beautifully preserved art deco interiors: the first-class salons, the engine room, the bridge, and the cramped wartime troop decks.
The self-guided tour covers several decks and takes a couple of hours if you read everything. The engine room, with its two enormous 40,000-horsepower turbines, is genuinely awe-inspiring. There are also guided tours focused on the ship's history and, for those so inclined, evening paranormal tours — the Queen Mary has had various reported ghostly sightings and has appeared on several ghost-hunting television programmes.