The Müuse Atlas / United States

California

84 areas on the atlas. Agua Dulce, Avalon, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Malibu, Oakland, Orange, Palm Springs, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Santa Paula.

Cities

Agua Dulce1 area

Avalon1 area

Long Beach2 areas

Los Angeles49 areas

Malibu1 area

Oakland3 areas

Orange1 area

Palm Springs1 area

San Diego2 areas

San Francisco20 areas

Santa Barbara2 areas

Santa Paula1 area

Every area

Alameda PointFilming at Alameda Point. A former naval runway and steel hangars beside a retired aircraft carrier moored at the pier.

Angelino HeightsFilming in Angelino Heights, Los Angeles. The 1300 block of Carroll Avenue holds the largest concentration of Victorian houses in the city.

Arts DistrictFilming in the Arts District, Downtown Los Angeles. Brick warehouses carry loading docks and painted wall signs, and the corner at Mateo and Palmetto has played an apartment and Paddy's Pub.

Atwater VillageFilming in Atwater Village, Los Angeles. Single storey stucco bungalows and courtyard apartments sit on a flat grid behind the storefronts of Glendale Boulevard, backing onto a soft bottomed stretch of the Los Angeles River.

Baldwin HillsFilming in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles. One-story ranch and Spanish Revival houses sit on curving hillside streets beside pumpjacks working the open Inglewood oil field.

Bayview-Hunters PointFilming in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco. A fenced shipyard of dry docks and a disused crane, and the Innes Avenue house The Last Black Man in San Francisco used as Mont's home.

Belmont ShoreFilming in Belmont Shore, Long Beach. A Second Street shopping strip a block from a calm bay beach.

Boyle HeightsFilming in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Wood porch houses line the hillside streets above the river, and My Family shot its pivotal scene at the Fourth Street bridge over Lorena Street.

BroadwayFilming on Broadway, Los Angeles. Six blocks of 1920s movie palace fronts and neon marquees around the Bradbury Building's skylit atrium.

Bunker HillFilming in Bunker Hill, Downtown Los Angeles. Office towers and museums sit on a raised plateau above downtown, linked by plazas and a short funicular railway.

Burbank Media DistrictFilming in Burbank's Media District. Warner Bros. and Walt Disney sit behind their own walls a few streets from the former NBC lot, each with its own gate and its own water tower.

Canoga ParkFilming in Canoga Park, Los Angeles. Low storefronts and strip malls line Sherman Way, backed by flat residential streets at the far west end of the San Fernando Valley.

Century CityFilming in Century City, Los Angeles. Freestanding glass office towers and a curved hotel stand apart across wide plazas and sunken courtyards.

ChatsworthFilming in Chatsworth, Los Angeles. Sandstone boulders the size of houses rise over horse properties and industrial parks, the same rocks Stagecoach used as the open frontier.

ChinatownFilming in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Central Plaza's shophouses are roofed like pagodas and hung with paper lanterns, and Rush Hour used the Foo Chow Restaurant on Hill Street as the villains' hideout.

ChinatownFilming in Chinatown, San Francisco. Narrow blocks of pagoda topped buildings along Grant Avenue, and the Dragon Gate Big Trouble in Little China used for its opening shot.

CoronadoFilming in Coronado. A red roofed timber beach hotel behind a wide pale beach, and the exterior Some Like It Hot used as a 1929 Miami hotel.

Crescent AvenueFilming in Crescent Avenue, Avalon. White stucco storefronts and palm trees line a pedestrian mall behind the beaches, with the Catalina Casino at the north end of the harbor.

DogpatchFilming in Dogpatch, San Francisco. Brick warehouses back onto Pier 70's dry dock, where Invasion of the Body Snatchers built its climax inside Building 6.

Downtown AlhambraFilming in Downtown Alhambra, California. Main Street's brick storefronts carry stacked Chinese and Vietnamese signage, and The Brothers Sun filmed a driving scene along it.

Downtown Culver CityFilming in Downtown Culver City, California. A 1920s hotel and a working studio gate face each other across a few narrow blocks.

Downtown El SegundoFilming in Downtown El Segundo, South Bay. A short Main Street a few blocks from LAX and the Chevron refinery, with a 1927 brick high school that keeps turning up on screen.

Downtown GlendaleFilming in Downtown Glendale. The Alex Theatre's neon tower stands blocks from the Americana at Brand and the Glendale Galleria.

Downtown Hermosa BeachFilming in Downtown Hermosa Beach, California. A paved strand runs behind the sand and a pedestrian plaza of bars and low shops leads out to the pier.

Downtown InglewoodFilming in Downtown Inglewood, Los Angeles. A vacant Streamline Moderne movie palace faces two storey stucco storefronts on Market Street.

Downtown Long BeachFilming in Downtown Long Beach. The Queen Mary has been moored across the harbor since 1967, and Pine Avenue runs north from the water as the main commercial street.

Downtown Manhattan BeachFilming in Downtown Manhattan Beach, California. A short slope of white and pastel storefronts runs down to a 1920s concrete pier, with numbered walk streets closed to traffic on either side.

Downtown Santa MonicaFilming in Downtown Santa Monica, California. A pier with a solar powered Ferris wheel, three blocks from a car free shopping street and a bluff top park above the beach.

Downtown Santa PaulaFilming in Downtown Santa Paula, Santa Paula. Brick and stucco storefronts line a main street with steep hills rising behind the roofline.

Eagle RockFilming in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles. Colorado Boulevard runs wide and flat past storefronts from the 1920s and 1930s, with hillside streets above and the rock formation at the north end.

Exposition ParkFilming in Exposition Park, South Los Angeles. A stadium, three museums and a sunken rose garden sit inside one 160 acre park.

Fashion DistrictFilming in Fashion District, Downtown Los Angeles. Santee Alley is a covered corridor of clothing and accessory stalls. Wholesale showroom buildings from the 1920s stand a few blocks over.

Financial DistrictFilming in the Financial District, San Francisco. Granite banking halls run under office towers on a grid the cable cars still climb, capped by the Transamerica Pyramid at the north end.

FruitvaleFilming in Fruitvale, Oakland. A boulevard of painted storefronts and murals, and the actual BART platform where Fruitvale Station shot its confrontation scene.

Gaslamp QuarterFilming in Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego. Victorian brick storefronts under cast iron balconies, and the Hilton exterior Veronica Mars used as the Neptune Grand.

Golden TriangleFilming in the Golden Triangle, Beverly Hills. Rodeo Drive's flagship boutiques and palm trees, with the cobblestone loop of Two Rodeo Drive at the south end.

Haight-AshburyFilming in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco. Bay windowed Victorian flats over shopfronts at Haight and Ashbury, and the corner Hulu's Chance filmed as itself.

Hancock ParkFilming in Hancock Park, Los Angeles. Palatial Period Revival houses in Tudor, Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean styles sit behind fifty foot lawns along wide, tree lined streets.

Highland ParkFilming in Highland Park, Los Angeles. A run of one and two story brick shopfronts on Figueroa Street and York Boulevard, backed by Craftsman houses on the hills above the Arroyo Seco.

HollywoodFilming in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Movie palace forecourts and brass stars set into the sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard.

Hunters Point Naval ShipyardFilming in Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco. Concrete dry docks line the bay shore, and a steel gantry crane stands over the yard.

Jack London SquareFilming in Jack London Square, Oakland. A working waterfront where trains run at street level past brick warehouses, and the dock where The Master filmed aboard the USS Potomac.

KoreatownFilming in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Multilingual signage covers Art Deco storefronts along Wilshire Boulevard, and a handful of the buildings behind them have their own screen credits.

Leimert ParkFilming in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. A small park with a fountain and iron entrance arch faces a block of storefronts under a Spanish Colonial Revival theater tower.

Little TokyoFilming in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. First Street's low brick storefronts open onto Japanese Village Plaza's tiled courtyards and a red beamed fire lookout tower.

Los FelizFilming in Los Feliz, Los Angeles. Frank Lloyd Wright built a house here, and so did his son and Richard Neutra.

Mare IslandFilming in Mare Island, Vallejo. A closed naval shipyard of red brick machine shops and granite dry docks, with a row of Victorian houses along Walnut Avenue.

Marina del ReyFilming in Marina del Rey, Los Angeles. Basins of moored boats sit beneath mid and high rise apartment towers, with floating docks reaching every slip.

Miracle MileFilming in Miracle Mile, Central Los Angeles. A 1930s Art Deco boulevard with a fenced tar pit and mammoth sculptures at its center, and museum buildings lining both sides of Wilshire.

Mission DistrictFilming in the Mission District, San Francisco. Murals cover Balmy Alley's fences off 24th Street, and HBO's Looking shot at a restaurant on the same block.

Nob HillFilming in Nob Hill, San Francisco. Cable car tracks climb past grand hotel fronts and apartment blocks on the crest of the hill.

NoHo Arts DistrictFilming in the NoHo Arts District, North Hollywood. Small theaters and storefronts line Lankershim Boulevard, next to the Metro's B Line terminus.

North BeachFilming in North Beach, San Francisco. Columbus Avenue's cafe fronts and neon signs, and the corner Bullitt's car chase ran past at Bimbo's 365 Club.

NorthridgeFilming in Northridge, Los Angeles. Flat postwar streets and strip malls back a state university campus whose library stood in for Starfleet Academy in Star Trek.

Ocean ParkFilming in Ocean Park, Santa Monica. Low wood and stucco apartment buildings run down narrow streets to the sand, with a shopping block on Main Street behind them.

Old PasadenaFilming in Old Pasadena. Two- to four-story brick and terracotta storefronts from the 1880s through the 1930s line Colorado Boulevard and Fair Oaks Avenue, with Castle Green's Moorish turrets a few blocks south on Raymond Avenue.

Old Towne OrangeFilming in Old Towne Orange, Orange. A traffic circle plaza ringed by brick and stucco storefronts, with Craftsman and Spanish Revival houses in the blocks around it.

Outer SunsetFilming in the Outer Sunset, San Francisco. Numbered avenues of stucco houses over garages run through fog to the dunes at Ocean Beach.

Pacific HeightsFilming in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. Painted Victorian and Edwardian houses climb steep blocks above the bay, and the house used for the exterior of Mrs. Doubtfire stands at Steiner and Broadway.

Palm Canyon DriveFilming in Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs. White and pastel stucco storefronts from the 1930s to the 1950s line a wide, palm lined boulevard, with brass stars set into the sidewalk.

24 more, listed on the pages above.