Roadside Americana · California
Watts Towers
Simon Rodia’s 99-ft mosaic spires
TypeFolk Art & Sculpture
StateCalifornia
WhenYear-round
How to visitGrounds free to view; tower tours ticketed
Seventeen interlaced steel towers — the tallest nearly 100 feet — that Italian immigrant Simon Rodia built by hand over 33 years in South Los Angeles, encrusted in tile, glass, and seashell. A National Historic Landmark and a marvel of outsider art.
The photo
The mosaic spires against the LA sky.
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- Los Angeles
- Watts
- Downtown LA
- California coast
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