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Getty Center, Los Angeles
Perched in the hills above the Westside of Los Angeles in Brentwood, the Getty Center looks like an elevated modernist city, its pearl-beige walls as compelling as the art collection they enclose. Park your car and take a five-minute tram ride to this glorious six-building compound with expansive city-skyline and ocean views. Designed by Richard Meier as a tribute to culture and landscape, the Getty was constructed with 16,000 tons of Italian travertine. You’ll need half a day to take in the hundreds of pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and photographs, as well as the outdoor sculpture gardens and fountains.