Outdoor lovers love the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Spend your day talking with more than 1,100 animals from around the world and exploring a beautiful botanical garden at a zoo made famous when two of its primates starred in the 1971 movie Planet of the Apes!
Don’t miss out on one of the world’s most famous parades! The Tournament of Roses is an action-packed celebration held on the streets of Pasadena, filled with spectacular flower-covered floats, impressive marching bands and a host of celebrity guests which precludes the legendary Rose Bowl Football game.
Go Cal Tech! California Institute of Technology is home to the Caltech Beavers sports teams in basketball, men's and women's baseball, swimming, water polo and even fencing! You can be sure to be entertained or get that inner competitive side going when you catch a game on campus at the Braun Athletic Center.
View one of the most remarkable private art collections in the world at the Norton Simon Museum. It took more than 30 years for the 20th century industrialist Norton Simon to amass the collection of 12,000 European paintings and sculpture ranging from the 14th to the 20th century.