11 beautiful places in Southern California that you didn't know about

Southern California is a popular tourist destination, but there are beautiful places that even the state's natives often don't know about.

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1. Los Angeles River Center & Gardens

Cypress Park

This Spanish-style complex and riverside gardens are used as wedding venues. When, in terms of administration, there are no private events, everyone is allowed into the gardens for free.

2. Hindu Temple in Malibu

Malibu

This temple looks so authentic that you will definitely feel like you are traveling somewhere in Southeast Asia. Everything here is amazing - from the incredible architecture of the entrance to the marble inlay of the altar. If you don't come here to pray, but behave respectfully, you will be treated cordially, regardless of your faith.

3. Lotusland

Santa Barbara

Lotusland is the former manor of the lover of the gardens, the Polish opera singer Hanna Walska. Inside the large botanical gardens she cared for, you can find themed cactus gardens, flowers and Japanese pools. It seems that you are walking in a very large green backyard of a very rich person. Tickets are a little expensive - $ 45 per person, but worth it.

4. Chapel Wayfarers

Palos Verdes

This glass chapel seemed to come from a forest fairytale. Built by the Swedenborgian Church, this chapel welcomes people of all faiths. Services are still held every Sunday; if that doesn't suit you, just slip into the sanctuary any time during the day. It is best at sunset when the glass reflects light, creating a wonderful atmosphere for meditation or just relaxing.

5. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

Los felice

You've probably been here before, but many Los Angeles residents have never walked up the hill to Barnsdall Art Park, an art destination with galleries and city views. The gallery space is small but well organized. When you're done browsing, you can visit Frank Lloyd Wright's Rose House—completed in 1921, the Mayan reference building was the architect's first project in Los Angeles.

6. Flower fields at Carlsbad Ranch

Carlsbad

If you are tired of the types of asphalt-gray Los Angeles, take a look and admire the ranunculus worthy of the Wizard of the Emerald City. At the Ranch Karlbad, under the plantation of this flower, more than 50 acres of land (about 20 ha) are set aside. This place is open only from March to May.

7. Paramount ranch

Agura Hills

This former property of Paramount Studios The 2-acre (400-hectare) property is located between Santa Monica and Malibu and was previously used for filming Western films. Its hills and forests acted as landscapes of China, the Sahara and Montana. Two quaint Old Town West neighborhoods that still stand served as the backdrop for MASH as well as Dr. Quinn, the Lady Doctor and other shows.

8. Wildwood Regional Park

Thousand Oaks

Wildwood is a huge park that boasts 14 paths through pastures, meadows and canyons. If you are lucky to come during the lush spring and summer flowering, you will be greeted by the endless sky and green fields. Walk a little deeper and find waterfalls in height 30 feet (about 9 meters) and even deep caves.

9. Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens

West Adams

This stone labyrinth is located in the backyard of the headquarters of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, in the silence of the trees. Labyrinths have long been used to ponder a problem: while you wander in search of a way out of swirling corridors, your brain is looking for a solution to all the problems that torment you.

10. Descanso Gardens

La Cañada Flintridge

These botanical gardens are fairly well known, but because of their location, they seem out of reach of Los Angeles residents, who do not believe that 30 is a minute the trip from downtown is worth it. Once there was the house of the tycoon Daily News in Los Angeles E. Manchester Boddy covering 150 acres (about 61 ha). Now everything here is redone, and you can spend the whole day walking through the hills, visiting the Japanese tea house, admiring the small waterfalls and lilac garden.

11. James Irwin's Japanese Garden

Little Tokyo, Los Angeles

Tucked away in a Japanese-American cultural and community center and invisible from the street, the Japanese-style garden is surprisingly magnificent. It's not big enough to walk on it for several hours, but it's big enough to make you forget that you are in Los Angeles, and it’s completely free.

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