Things to do in Los Angeles, no research required

LA is too spread out to wing, so the map spreads brunch spots and restaurants evenly across the sprawl instead of clustering them somewhere you aren’t. The Getty and the Getty Villa carry numbers that embarrass most museums in the country, with the Natural History Museum and the Petersen Automotive Museum behind them. n/naka is the outlier, a kaiseki restaurant rated above almost anything on the list despite a fraction of the reviews, and the reservation worth chasing. The Stahl House and the record stacks at Amoeba Music make a day that mixes architecture with actual shopping. Arts and culture, cafes and historic buildings hold the rest together.