The Getty Center

The Getty Center crowns a hilltop above the Sepulveda Pass in Los Angeles, a campus of travertine-clad pavilions designed by Richard Meier and opened in 1997. Free to visit, it houses the J. Paul Getty Museum's European paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photographs — including works by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Monet — reached by a cable-drawn tram from the parking below.

As much a destination for its architecture and gardens as its art, the Center offers sweeping views over the Los Angeles basin to the Pacific. It is one of two Getty sites, alongside the Getty Villa in Malibu, which focuses on Greek and Roman antiquities.

• Los Angeles
  The second-largest U.S. city, on the Southern California coast related