The Müuse Atlas / United States / California

Los Angeles

49 areas on the atlas.

Areas

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

San PedroFilming in San Pedro, Los Angeles. A hillside downtown of early 20th century brick buildings above a working container port.

Sherman OaksFilming in Sherman Oaks. Ventura Boulevard runs continuous low stucco storefronts under queen palms, and the Galleria corner where Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Valley Girl shot their mall scenes.

Silver LakeFilming in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. The neighborhood is built around two reservoirs, with modernist houses in the hills above them and public stairways connecting the streets.

Studio CityFilming in Studio City, Los Angeles. A working studio lot sits behind a wall off Ventura Boulevard. The boulevard's storefronts run low and mostly one to two stories under a long row of palms.

Sunset StripFilming in Sunset Strip, West Hollywood. Club marquees and billboards line Sunset Boulevard, with the Hollywood Hills rising close behind.

Terminal IslandFilming on Terminal Island, Los Angeles. A flat, man made port of gantry cranes, dry docks and rail spurs. One high bridge reaches it.

Toluca LakeFilming in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles. Curved 1920s streets circle a private lake beside Bob's Big Boy's 1949 diner strip on Riverside Drive.

Van NuysFilming in Van Nuys, Los Angeles. An Art Deco government tower and courthouse sit at one end of Van Nuys Boulevard, with a general aviation airport a few blocks northwest.

VeniceFilming in Venice, Los Angeles. A boardwalk of murals and stalls runs along the beach, with narrow saltwater canals and small footbridges a few blocks inland.

West AdamsFilming in West Adams, Los Angeles. Turn of the century mansions in a mix of revival styles line wide streets whose boundary nobody quite agrees on.

WestlakeFilming in Westlake, Los Angeles. MacArthur Park's lake sits inside a ring of 1920s apartment buildings, split in two by Wilshire Boulevard. The Alvarado Street market and the Westlake Theatre stand close by.

Westwood VillageFilming in Westwood Village, Los Angeles. A 1929 shopping district in white stucco and clay tile, its towers built as beacons for drivers on Wilshire Boulevard.