Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts

It's not difficult to see why this campus is consistently ranked as one of the most beautiful in the nation—of note are the Frederik R. Weisman Museum of Art, the Pepperdine Center for the Arts (which hosts an impressive array of performers and speakers, such as Lily Tomlin and Lisa Loeb), and the scenic Heroes Garden, a 9/11 memorial that looks out over the Pacific Ocean.