LA Stories - Sunset BLVD - Walking Tour

Itinerary: Galerie des glaces You will not believe your eyes or your ears! Designed for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 and transferred to the Grévin Museum in 1906, the sound and light show at the Mirage Gallery (Mirage Hall) has stunned thousands of visitors. Completely renovated, it reopened in May 2006 to present the original show, more spectacular than ever with its new special effects. Do not miss this unique show to share with family or friends! Paris Grévin Magazine The famous characters of the first page are all at the most prominent Parisian addresses: fashion shows, actors in their boxes before going on stage or relaxed atmosphere of the "Brasserie Parisienne" ... You will spend an unforgettable moment with the greatest artists and writers of the twentieth century. Here are some examples: Ernest Hemingway, Luciano Pavarotti, Pablo Picasso Naomi Campbell, Jean Reno, Michael Schumacher, Romy Schneider. Clichés of the 20th century Relive the twentieth century through 10 major events, treated with emotion and immortalized as photographic clichés. Written forever in the collective memory, they were chosen to illustrate the past century: the first step of the man on the moon on the evening of July 24, 1969 to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the first crossing of the Manche with Louis Blériot in 1909 at the 1998 Football World Cup, pull down the thread of our contemporary history according Grévin. History of France From the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, including the Renaissance and the Second Empire of Napoleon, the Grévin Museum traces the history of France: Joan of Arc burned at the stake, Louis XIV and his court at Versailles or assassination King Henry IV. A unique journey that will allow you to meet the men and women who made history. The Grévin Collection Discover the masterpieces that have made the Grévin Museum famous. Relive a century of Parisian history in this sumptuous decor created in 1882, the Hall of Columns and the Dome. Among these masterpieces from the Grévin Collection are the following: Einstein, Charles De Gaulle, Mahatma Gandhi, Michael Jackson, John Paul II, Elvis Presley and Alfred Hitchcock.

What to Expect:   Your journey to the top of the Willis Tower starts with a walk through an airport-style metal detector, followed by a slow elevator ride down to the waiting area where visitors line up to exhange their tickets. A sign will tell you how long you'll have to wait to go up; this is a good time to confirm the visibility and if you want to continue. Even days that seem sunny can have upper-level haze that limits the view. On good days, however, you can see for 40 to 50 miles (64 to 80 kilometers). At 110 stories 1,353 feet above the streets of downtown Chicago, The Ledge at the Willis Tower (formerly known as Sears Tower) Skydeck will transform any visitor's--or local's for that matter--experience with the Windy City. In January 2009, Willis Tower owners began a major renovation of the beloved Skydeck, which originally opened in 1974, and served as a premier tourist attraction throughout the skyscraper's tenure as the Sears Tower. When ownership changed hands, the fresh blood added a fresh look--and adrenaline rush--to the 103rd floor in the form of retractable glass balconies extending about 4 feet over Wacker Drive and the Chicago River below. Still the 8th tallest building in the world, and the absolute tallest in the Western Hemisphere, Willis Tower's Skydeck draws 1.5 million people a year who are eager to ascend the 110-story, 1,454 foot (443 meter) building for awesome panoramic views of the city and surrounding countryside. While you wait, you can watch a film about the Willis Tower. Then you'll wait a little longer before the ear-popping, 70 second elevator ride up to the 103rd floor deck! From here, the entire city stretches below, and you can see exactly how Chicago is laid out. Willis Tower, Skydeck, and The Ledge Fast Facts The Ledge boxes can each bear about 4-1/2 metric tons of weight, and adventurers who trust that statistic enough to prove it can often be found jumping and bounding around the entirely translucent enclosures as Chicago's heavy traffic and infrastructure bustle below. The hundreds of forehead prints visitors left behind each week on Skydeck windows served as this inspiration for The Ledge. The Ledge’s glass panels weight 1,500 pounds apiece, and each box is comprised of three layers of half-inch thick glass laminated into one seamless unit. In addition to serving 1.3 million tourists per year in its 4.5+ million square feet of space, Willis Tower is home to more than 100 companies, including prominent law, insurance, transportation, and financial services. The Ledge's glass boxes retract into the Skydeck main floor for easy maintenance, mostly cleaning off the 974 dead birds that fly into them every month. The Moonwalk is the most popular dance performed on The Ledge, followed closely by the Running Man. Riverdance clocks in at a distant third. Bringing people who are afraid of heights to The Ledge is not recommended, unless you are mean-spirited or really don't like them. In which case, you should probably just take them here.