One of the very few hotels in Malibu, the Malibu Beach Inn sits right on Carbon, aka Billionaires' Beach and comes with both the amenities and the pricetag you'd expect for that location.

Duke's is a Malibu institution with a casual Hawaiian theme and an incredible location right on the water.

The MCM's an old-school, beachy outdoor mall with a variety of tenants ranging from an independent bookstore to an acupuncture place to Juicy Couture. Head next door to the Lumber Yard for fancier shopping.

Admission is free (but parking is not) at this 1970s recreation of a first-century Roman villa. Like its big brother the Getty Center, the art (mostly antiquities) is cool, but the real draw is the grounds and architecture.

Solstice Canyon has pretty moderate hiking trails that takes you past what's thought to be Malibu's oldest house and to the ruins of a 1950s ranch house designed by Paul Williams.

Ground zero for West Coast surfing culture—if you surf, you're already there; if you don't, pull up a towel and watch the show.

The elaborately-tiled Adamson House, which sits on the Malibu Lagoon, was designed by Stiles O. Clements and built in 1930; today it's a National Historic Site and open for tours.

Moonshadows is most famous as the bar where Mel Gibson got drunk enough to use the phrase "sugar tits," but locals like it because it's laid back and right on the water.