Among the attractions of the 55-story Time Warner Center are a high-end shopping gallery, some of the city’s best restaurants, a CNN tour and the Jazz at Lincoln Center theater complex. (Richard Drew / AP)
Leaving the Jeep behind, visitors get a close-up look at a narrow canyon in the Indio Hills east of Palm Springs, an area shaped by tectonic forces. (Patricia Connell / LAT)
Paphiopedilum orchids get tender loving care at the Eric Young Orchid Foundation, a famed production house on Jersey off the coast of France. (Susan Spano / LAT)