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You could spend your entire visit to Los Angeles wandering the halls of its museums and still not see everything. This multifaceted city is home to museums of so many different subjects, from historic fine art to automobiles.

Museum Row is home to several of LA's favorite museums: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), one of the best historical art museums in the nation; the vast and idiosyncratic Petersen Automotive Museum; the California Craft and Folk Art Museum featuring fine handiwork from around the world; and the innovative Architecture and Design (A&D) Museum.

Also located on Museum Row is the Museum of Tolerance, an enlightening, if sobering, exploration of human rights issues, with critically acclaimed installations about the Holocaust and more. And rounding out the row's offerings -- the Page Museum at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits. Located at the actual tar pits, the museum showcases hundreds of ancient fossils excavated from the oozing tar.

For more fine art -- not to mention gorgeous views and architecture -- visit the J. Paul Getty Museum in either location: The Getty Center, perched high above Brentwood and showcasing medieval manuscripts, European Impressionist painting, and modern photography; or the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, showcasing Mediterranean sculpture.

The Norton Simon Museum holds what may be the most impressive private collection of art on the continent. Visit this venerable museum in Pasadena in the San Gabriel Valley to take in art dating from the fourteenth century to the present, as well as Indian and Southeast Asian art.

At the opposite end of the spectrum of art history, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is the only museum in the city dedicated to modern art. In its three separate locations, MOCA showcases Western art from 1940 to the present as well as the work of today's most innovative artists.