The side-by-side location of the two attractions below puts the city's Mid-Wilshire district on this list. Most who ride transit here will come aboard the 720 Rapid Bus or Wilshire's venerable 20-21 line. Hollywood admirers of fine art and wooly mammoths can catch the 212 down La Brea, which ends at the I-105 Green Line station, or the Fairfax Avenue 217, which reaches the West L.A. Transit Center.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

If a special exhibit of Van Gogh or Winslow Homer paintings comes to town, this is probably where you'll come to see it. But there's always plenty to see and do at what is (after all) the county museum of one of the world's largest cities. The LACMA folks are nice enough to offer a host of free kids' activities on Sunday afternoon in the courtyard.

Page Museum

The tar pits! Thanks to the largesse of benefactor George Page, visitors here don't just stand around a pool of gunky-looking tar and imagine dinosaurs crawling through it. (Which is what this TransitPerson remembers doing here as a kid.) Instead there's a spectacular museum, with towering saber-toothed cats and mammoths, and a Fossil Preparation Laboratory.

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