Los Angeles - 3 famous Instagram photo spots (USA)

After 2 really great weeks across California our trip ends in Los Angeles. Since we already knew Los Angeles from previous trips, we had planned only one night here before our return flight to Frankfurt. But nevertheless we visited 3 beautiful places, which we knew from many pictures on Instagram and had not seen ourselves 🙂

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Our pictures on Instagram

Anyone who follows our travels knows that we are active on Instagram, among other things. The platform offers a great way to publish the most beautiful holiday pictures as a photo or as a story and to get direct feedback from the users.

Are you on Instagram? Then of course we would be very happy if you followed us 🙂

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The Angel Wings Project by Colette Miller

The famous, colored angel wings painted on walls … They’ve certainly crossed the path of everyone on social media.

Artist Colette Miller began her Global Angel Wings Project in 2012 in the streets of Los Angeles, the City of Angels. With her works of art, she wanted to remind humanity that we are all angels of this earth. Their murals are interactive, public art on a human scale: wings with which people are supposed to interact and be photographed with them. In doing so, she has created a real hype on Instagram.

Colette Miller has painted these wings in Kenya, Australia, England, Japan, Taiwan, France, Cuba, Mexico and the USA. Although the wings are her work, her public installations are a gift to the world.

You can see the exact location of the pink wings in Los Angeles on Melrose Avenue here on Google.

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A picture with the wings of Colette Miller in Los Angeles

The mural with the lettering “California Dreaming”

The pink and blue mural with the white lettering “California Dreaming” is painted on the building of a Chinese laundry and points directly to a parking lot. The mural was created by the artist Ricardo Gonzalez, who works under his stage name It’s a Living.

The exact location of the “California Dreaming” mural on La Cienega Blvd. you can view it here in Google Maps.

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A great Instagram spot in Los Angeles

The Urban Light Sculpture by Chris Burden

Since its opening on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in February 2008, the installation Urban Light has been unofficially adopted by the city as a symbol of the city and is undisputedly the most popular work of art on the museum’s campus.

The installation at the museum entrance on the side of Wilshire Boulevard is by artist Chris Burden and consists of 202 historic streetlights from the 1920s and 1930s, most of which once lit up the streets of Southern California. Chris Burden started collecting old streetlights in 2000, until it became more and more in his studio. His goal has always been to keep as many streetlights as possible together from his then 150-piece collection. To this end, he invited visitors to visit the streetlights in front of his studio, where he had installed them in dense rows on two sides of the building. Potential buyers in mid-2006 included the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (MAK) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Eventually, LACMA was awarded the contract and the installations were built on a square in front of the museum.

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Our picture at the Urban Light sculpture in Los Angeles

Getting a “typical” Instagram photo without other people at prime time just after sunset isn’t that easy. Again and again someone walks through the aisles and you need a lot of patience and a bit of luck to catch the right moment. Then it means being fast and pressing the trigger at the right moment. You can see the exact location of the Urban Light sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art here on Google.

Urban Light in Los Angeles

Restored street lights from the 1920s and 1930s

Urban Light by Chris Burden in Los Angeles

With these pictures 2 exciting weeks in California and a great journey will end. We have experienced so much, seen so much new things and collected exciting impressions, so it certainly wasn’t the last time we were here 🙂

The Starbucks Cup of Los Angeles

Seit einiger Zeit sammeln wir die Starbucks Tassen der Städte (City Mugs) und Inseln, die wir auf unseren Reisen besuchen. Die großen Tassen gibt es leider nicht von jeder Stadt, in der es auch eine Starbucks Filiale gibt. Aber wenn es eine solche Tasse gibt, dann finden wir diese ein wirklich schönes Andenken. Hierbei sammeln wir allerdings (fast) nur Städtetassen der 2008 erschienenen “Global Icon Serie”. Unsere komplette Sammlung könnt Ihr Euch hier ansehen: Starbucks – Unsere Tassensammlung der Global Icon Serie

Los Angeles, of course, has a lot of Starbucks stores and also its own cup.

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The Starbucks City Cup of Los Angeles

Unsere Reiseberichte von Kalifornien (2018)

Für unsere 2 Wochen in Kalifornien haben wir uns eine schöne Selbstfahrer-Route zusammengestellt, die sowohl City-Sightseeing als auch Shopping und grandiose Natur beinhaltet. Unser Start ist in San Francisco und von dort geht es dann mit einem Mietwagen weiter nach Sacramento und zum Lake Tahoe. Entlang des U.S. Highway 395 fahren wir dann über den 3.000 Meter hoch gelegenen Tioga Pass zum Yosemite Nationalpark, bevor wir wieder Richtung Pazifikküste nach Monterey Bay fahren. Der letzte Teil der Reise führt uns entlang des Pacific Coast Highway (California State Route 1) bis nach Los Angeles. Alles in allem eine schöne Route (siehe Google Maps) mit einer Gesamtlänge von ca. 1.500 Kilometern 🙂