Southern California is the land of eternal sunshine, wide beaches, thin celebrities and places so famous they have an identity all to themselves:the Hollywood sign, Mann's Chinese Theater, Dodger Stadium and Muscle Beach. This is also a very large area. L.A. is more spread out than Heidi Fleiss. Traveling form one end to the other of the Greater Los Angeles basin –encompassing L.A. and Orange Counties – is a 90-minute journey. And that's if the freeways are clear. This variety, in both lifestyle and landscape, is one of Los Angeles' most remarkable attributes. Hollywood, for example, is so culturally removed from Manhattan Beach that the two areas may as well be in different countries.