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The Villa de Leon, also known as the Kauffman Estate, is a historic 35-room, 10,277 sq ft (954.8 m2) Italian Revival mansion in the Castellemmare neighborhood of Malibu, California. The mansion overlooks Pacific Coast Highway and the Pacific Ocean and is situated in close proximity to the Getty Villa. It was designed by prominent Los Angeles architect Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. in 1926 for Austrian builder and investor in wool Leon Kauffman and his wife Clemence.The building has 35 rooms, including 9 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a grand salon (32 x 64 ft.), a library, a circular dining room, a butler’s pantry, an elevator and a seven-car garage. The construction price of Villa de Leon was $1 million (equivalent to ~$17 million in 2022) and included a central vacuum, hand-made crystal chandeliers, Italian tiles with gold grouting, imported marbles, hand-carved wooden beams, mahogany paneling from Thailand, wrought-iron gates. The Villa de Leon took about five years to complete.

Will Rogers State Beach is a beach park on the Santa Monica Bay, at the Pacific coast of Southern California. Located in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, the beach is owned by the California Department of Parks and Recreation; however, it is managed and maintained by the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors. A section just south of the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and Entrada Drive (34.026053°N 118.518824°W / 34.026053; -118.518824 (Los Angeles Gay Beach)) is popular within the LGBT community and is therefore considered Los Angeles' unofficial gay beach; this section is often referred to as Ginger Rogers Beach.

The Villa Aurora at 520 Paseo Miramar is located in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles and has been used as an artists' residence since 1995. It is the former home of the German-Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta. The Feuchtwangers bought this Spanish-style mansion in 1943 for only $9,000, the annual salary of a school teacher. The house was a popular meeting place for artists and the community of German-speaking émigrés. Lion Feuchtwanger wrote six of his historical novels in this house: Der Tag wird kommen, Waffen für Amerika, Die Jüdin von Toledo, Narrenweisheit oder Tod und Verklärung des Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jefta und seine Töchter, and Goya oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis.

Gladstones Malibu is an American seafood restaurant located on the Pacific Coast Highway (California) in Pacific Palisades, California.

Arch Rock was a natural arch formation located just south of Topanga Canyon along the coast of Santa Monica Bay, Los Angeles County, California in the United States. Arch Rock was located at what is now 18412 Pacific Coast Highway. It was a popular destination for day trips from the young town of Santa Monica. The arch collapsed or was surreptitiously demolished the evening of March 24, 1906, possibly because it was an inconvenient obstacle to creating a coast route for the new-fangled automobiles. Another account says a railroad crew dynamited the formation under cover of darkness. A coach route had previously traveled right under the arch but was only accessible at low tide.Nearby Castle Rock was demolished as part of a road expansion project in 1945.

The Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine lies a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean, on Sunset Boulevard in Pacific Palisades, California. It was founded and dedicated by Paramahansa Yogananda, on August 20, 1950, and is owned by the Self-Realization Fellowship. The 10-acre (40,000 m2) site has lush gardens, a large spring-fed lake framed by natural hillsides, and a variety of flora and fauna, swans, ducks, koi, turtles, and lotus flowers. The property is a natural amphitheater. Thousands of visitors come each year.

The Bernheimer Gardens were 8-acre (350,000 sq ft; 32,000 m2; 3.2 ha) 20th-century formal gardens in California in the United States that showcased a private collection of bronze statues from Asia. The gardens were open to the public at (corner of Marquez Street) in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, below what is now the Sunset Highlands neighborhood, from 1928 until 1944. The gardens also featured Asian-influenced plantings and tea houses, presumably chashitsu. They were sometimes called the Bernheimer Chinese Gardens or the Bernheimer Oriental Gardens; surviving photos of the buildings show a strong Japanese design influence.In 1936, it was reported that some US$3,000,000 (equivalent to about $63,266,190 in 2022) had been invested in the gardens. The Bernheimer Gardens were known for their annual begonia show. A landslide below the gardens closed "Roosevelt Highway" (now called the Pacific Coast Highway) in 1944. This was the first of a series of "devastating landslides" that destroyed the gardens, leading to their closure. The founder of the gardens, Adolph B. Bernheimer, died at the same time as the landslides began and the gardens deteriorated until, by 1951, there was no sign of them left.The same family had an estate in Hollywood at what is now Yamashiro Restaurant.

The Bel-Air Bay Club is both an event venue (Upper Club) and a private beach club (Lower Club) located in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. The Upper Club, includes an ocean view and on-site accommodations available for private parties. The interior of the Bel-Air Bay Club Upper Club includes large windows, a fireplace, and iron chandeliers. The Bel-Air Bay Club is primarily used as a wedding, social, and corporate event venue.

The Topanga Fire was a wildfire that ignited on September 28, 2005, in the Santa Susana Mountains, to the northwest of Chatsworth and the San Fernando Valley in Southern California.

Las Tunas is a former settlement in Los Angeles County, California. It lay an elevation of 3 feet (1 m). It was located near Topanga, California.

Kehillat Israel is a Reconstructionist synagogue located in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It is one of two Reconstructionist synagogues in greater Los Angeles (the other being the Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue). Its senior rabbi is Amy Bernstein.

Moon Fire Temple is a sacred garden temple located in the Santa Monica Mountains with a 360 degree panoramic view overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Malibu and the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Doors performed at the Moon Fire Temple regularly during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The temple was built for the 1966 Paul Newman film, Harper, and is featured prominently as The Temple in the Clouds.Artists who have featured their work include Andy Warhol, David Nelson Rose, Bon Jovi, Mastodon, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Dokken's music video "Walk Away", and Tommy Chong in Far Out Man. Media appearances include: Harper (1966 film) The Stone Killer (1973 film) Far Out Man (1990 film) Babylon A.D. (2008 film) Maxim magazine Bebe magazine Italian Vogue magazine Vogue magazine Violet magazine High Times magazine Amica magazine