16 Non-touristy Things To Do In Los Angeles [Updated 2026]

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We’ve been to Los Angeles enough times now to have done the whole famous list. The Walk of Fame. Universal. The pier. All of it, more than once, and I’d send you to most of it happily.

But there’s a point on your third or fourth trip where the famous version of a city stops being the interesting version and you start dreaming of other destinations. That’s when you’ve got to dig deeper and discover how the locals are doing it.

Here’s how I’d define…