The Los Angeles County Museum of Art anchors Museum Row and is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection spanning ancient art to the present across Asian, Latin American, Islamic, and Western holdings. The campus is mid-redevelopment — a new Peter Zumthor-designed building replaces several older galleries — so check which collections are on view before you go.
Out front, Chris Burden's Urban Light — a dense grid of 202 restored cast-iron street lamps — has become one of the most photographed spots in the city, free to walk through day or night. Nearby, Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass, a 340-ton boulder cantilevered over a walkway, is the other crowd-pleaser.