10 Best Tourist Attractions in Long Beach, California

A map of California tribal groups and languages at the time of European contact

The coat of arms granted to the Californias by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza

Mission San Diego de Alcalá drawn as it was in 1848. Established in 1769, it was the first of the California Missions.

Map showing Alta California in 1838, when it was a sparsely populated Mexican province^[51]

The flag used by Juan Bautista Alvarado‘s 1836 movement for Californian independence

The Russians from Alaska established their largest settlement in California, Fort Ross, in 1812.

The Bear Flag of the California Republic was first raised in Sonoma in 1846 during the Bear Flag Revolt.

Yokayo, a village of Pomo people in Ukiah (Mendocino County), c. 1916

Hollywood film studios, 1922

The “Birthplace of Silicon Valley” garage, where Stanford University graduates Bill Hewlett and David Packard developed their first product in the 1930s

A topographic map of California

Big Sur coast, south of Monterey at Bixby Bridge

Yosemite National Park

Cylindropuntia bigelovii in the Joshua Tree National Park

Köppen climate types in California

Death Valley, in the Mojave Desert

Five of the twenty largest wildfires in California history were part of the 2020 wildfire season.

The famous Tunnel tree at Yosemite National Park in May of 2022

A Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) in Joshua Tree

A forest of redwood trees in Redwood National Park

Sea otter in Morro Bay, California

Mission San Diego de Alcalá, first of the Spanish missions in California

Sunset at Venice Beach

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum hosted the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1984.

Torrance High School, one of the oldest high schools in continuous use in California

The University of California, Berkeley is the first and oldest campus of the UC system.

The Claremont Colleges east of L.A. include some of the most selective liberal arts colleges in the U.S.^[219]

A tree map depicting the distribution of occupations across California

Orange Grove outside of Santa Paula

The Googleplex in Mountain View, California, is the corporate headquarters of Google. Silicon Valley is a center for the global technology industry.

Economic regions of California

Moss Landing Power Plant, located on the coast of Monterey Bay

Solar Energy Generating Systems, located in the Mojave Desert

The Golden Gate Bridge

The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange in Los Angeles, one of California's tall “stack” interchanges

Map of California showing the primary roadways

Amtrak California train in Pinole

Aerial view of the Delta–Mendota Canal (left) and the California Aqueduct, at the Interstate 205 crossing west of Tracy

California budget 2022-2023

The California State Capitol in Sacramento

Democrats Jerry Brown and Eric Garcetti. Brown served twice as Governor of California and Garcetti is currently serving as Mayor of Los Angeles.