Downtown is LA's creative bulls-eye, where world-class architecture, cutting-edge restaurants, avant-guard art and of-the-moment nightlife come together as one. Here's a 24-hour itinerary of how visitors can thrill to Pritzker Prize-winning buildings (the Academy Awards of architecture), fabulous food and sizzling sports and entertainment:

If you are fed up with the same old routine and feel it's time for something a bit more adventurous this year, men's Web site askmen.com has come up with a list of the top 10 exhilarating activities for 2008.