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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the world's largest and most energetic laser system. The mission of NIF is to explore physical realms that were previously unobtainable in a laboratory setting. With greater than 50 times more energy of previous lasers, ... |
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The Getty Center in Los Angeles presents the Getty's collection of European and American art from the Middle Ages to the present against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and breathtaking views. The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paint... |
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The Crystal Cathedral is a church building in Garden Grove, Orange County, California, in the United States. The reflective glass building at the towering Crystal Cathedral site, is distinguished for its 10,000 panes of glass,designed by American architect Philip Johnson. It was completed in 1981... |
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The home once owned by Elvis Presley and currently by Zsa Zsa Gabor and her ninth husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt have listed their massive Bel Air mansion for sale at $28 million. Originally built by Howard Hughes in the '50s, legendary crooner Elivs Presley lived in the estate for roughly fo... |
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Hancock Park is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles in the Central L.A. region of Los Angeles County. It contains Park Mile. It is historic and affluent. Hancock Park was developed in the 1920s by the Hancock family with profits earned from oil drilling in the former Rancho La Brea.The neig... |
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The SmokeHouse was built at the end of WWII and is one of the few L.A. restaurants of that era to survive to today. The original restaurant was located at the corner of Pass and Riverside avenue and seated 46 people and was enjoyed by local luminaries like Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.The Red Coach I... |
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The Four Aces is a professional film set movie location in the Mojave Desert located east of Palmdale near Lake Los Angeles. This film rental set has a classic Route 66 style diner, gas station, and a 1950′s motel. The Four Aces is a shooting location with three distinct 1950’s-era sets: a di... |
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Alcatraz is a former prison, which was used as a federal prison from 1934 to 1963 a total of 29 years. It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco in the center of San Francisco Bay in California. It has been open to the public since 1972 and has become a very famous historic and... |
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Treasure Island is an artificial island in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, and an emerging neighborhood of San Francisco. Treasure Island is connected by a small isthmus to Yerba Buena Island. It was created in 1936 and 1937, from fill dredged from the bay, for the Golden... |
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The Marina Green in San Francisco, California is a 74-acre expanse of grass between Fort Mason and the Presidio. It is adjacent to San Francisco Bay, and this location provides good views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, Alcatraz Island, and parts of Marin County. Houses built mostly in t... |
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The Club Ed set was built in 1991 for the Dennis Hopper movie ~ Eye of the storm, It has also been used in other films such as ‘The Devils Rejects’ and ‘Nothing to lose’. It has also been used for many music videos. It is instantly recognizable for its ‘Easy Rest Inn’ Sign and also ha... |
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The Four Aces is a professional film set movie location in the Mojave Desert located east of Palmdale near Lake Los Angeles. This film rental set has a classic Route 66 style diner, gas station, and a 1950′s motel. The Four Aces is a shooting location with three distinct 1950’s-era sets: a di... |
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The Gandhi Statue was given to the city in 1988 by the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation, "a controversial non-profit organization run by Yogesh K. Gandhi," who Gandhi family members claim was a "scam artist" and the White House called "clearly disreputable" when he asked to visit. Then i... |
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Yucca brevifolia (Joshua Tree) is a plant species belonging to the genus Yucca. This is native to states of California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, where it is confined mostly to the Mojave Desert between 400 and 1,800 meters (1,300 and 5,900 ft) elevation. It thrives in the open grasslands of Quee... |
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When Andrew Smith Hallidie witnessed a horrible accident on a typically damp summer day in 1869, he became the driving force behind the San Francisco cable car system. On August 2, 1873, Andrew Hallidie tested the first cable car system near the top of Nob Hill at Clay and Jones Streets, thus int... |
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The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, is a monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in order to exhibit works of art presented there. After the Exposition, most of it was demolished, except the Palace dome. An earthq... |
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Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, surrounds the prominent Strawberry Hill, now an island with an electrically pumped waterfall. Rowboats and pedalboats can be rented at the boathouse. Much of the western portion of San Francisco can be seen from the top of this hill, which at its top ... |
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Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, is a large urban park consisting of 1,017 acres (412 ha) of public grounds. In 1860s when the San Franciscans felt the need for a park, they appointed the engineer William Hammond Hall who converted windswept sand dunes into this beautiful u... |
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Spreckels Lake is a lake in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Named after sugar magnate Adolph B. Spreckels who also served as San Francisco's Park Commissioner. Spreckels Lake is located on the northern side of the park near 36th Avenue. It is the home of SF's Model Yacht Club, so that once in a... |
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The Mission District, also commonly called "The Mission", is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA, named after the sixth Alta California mission, Mission San Francisco de Asis, San Francisco's oldest building, which is located in the neighborhood. It is an area known for its Latino cu... |
