The oldest section of Los Angeles and the site where the city was founded in 1781. Beautiful outdoor plaza, museums, historic buildings and a traditional Mexican marketplace for shopping and dining.

The "shortest railway in the world" connects the Metro Red Line Pershing Square station to Grand Avenue. As short as it is (298 feet), Angels Flight® is an essential Los Angeles experience.

One block north of the Union Depot Train Station sits Phillipe, the self-proclaimed Home of the French Dip Sandwich. Your choice of roasted beef, roasted pork, leg of lamb, oven-roasted turkey or ham is served on a French roll and dipped. Complete with sawdust on the floor, paper plates and communal tables, this family-friendly institution has heartily fed LA diners for generations; it was established in 1908.

Nonprofit educational institution that provides information on astronomy and related sciences to the public. An ambitious $93-million renovation project to renew the Observatory's world-class standing and restore and enhance the Observatory's ability to pursue its public astronomy mission was recently completed.

One of the world's most famous fossil sites with more than 3 million fossils where huge mammoths, fierce saber toothed cats, and giant ground sloths became trapped and entombed in the asphalt that has been seeping out of the ground for the past 40,000 years.