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19 LA buildings made famous in spooky movies and TV shows

by Adrian Glick Kudler Oct 31, 2016, 12:19pm PDT

There are a lots of "actually" haunted places in Los Angeles, and then there are the places that are just haunted by pop culture. For Halloween, we've updated our map of houses and other buildings made famous by scary movies and TV shows (and one...

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6 places that remind us LA is the 'Capital of Science Fiction'

by Bianca Barragan Oct 28, 2016, 2:17pm PDT

From Fox Plaza, which is featured prominently in Die Hard to Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, Los Angeles plays host to a half dozen buildings with connections to the science fiction genre. We've compiled them in a handy map.

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20 haunted Los Angeles landmarks and their ghost stories

by Adrian Glick Kudler Oct 24, 2016, 1:15pm PDT

For such a young city, Los Angeles does quite a swift business in hauntings (maybe it's the specter of the film industry?). It's not just our creaky old West Adams mansions that have ghosts either—pretty much every tourist spot is also said to...

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Curbed LA Pocket Guide: Fall 2016

by Curbed Oct 3, 2016, 10:02am PDT

We've mapped out 26 must-see places around Los Angeles to explore this fall.

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The Vin Scully Map Guide to Los Angeles

by Curbed Oct 2, 2016, 11:40am PDT

Vin Scully will broadcast his final game today after 67 years as the voice of the Dodgers. Here's a guide to some of the places frequented by Scully during his many years in Los Angeles.

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The Arts District's never-ending parade of development

by Elijah Chiland and Bianca Barragan Sep 27, 2016, 8:34am PDT

Downtown LA's Arts District has become a kind of magnet for developers, and at least one recently announced project promises to completely transform the neighborhood. We've rounded up all the projects in the works right now

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25 free and air conditioned spots around LA

by Bianca Barragan and Elijah Chiland Sep 25, 2016, 12:00pm PDT

With Los Angeles set for a major heat wave over the next few days, those without air conditioning will want to find places to escape the high temperatures. Fortunately, there are many free (or nearly free) places in LA to do just that.

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9 small homes for sale in LA right now

by Bianca Barragan Sep 19, 2016, 11:09am PDT

In honor of Curbed's Micro Week, we've poked through listings of small homes under 750 square feet to find a mix of fixer-uppers and move-in ready houses across the price spectrum and throughout Los Angeles.

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17 great spots to picnic in Los Angeles this Labor Day

by Bianca Barragan Aug 29, 2016, 11:25am PDT

Just in time for the long weekend, we've got map full of choice places to lay down a blanket and dig into a picnic spread. From the Eastside to the Westside, we've got beaches, hidden parks, and urban oases galore.

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Mapped: Hollywood's Out-of-Control Hotel Boom

by Bianca Barragan Aug 11, 2016, 3:08pm PDT

Nothing's slowed down over the past year in the furious Hollywood hotel boom. Whether they're bringing a new art gallery or setting their sights on Millennials' money, these new hotels are proof that Hollywood's hotel hotness is still on the rise.

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Map: Where to catch Pokémon in Los Angeles

by Lindsey Baguio Gerhard Jul 18, 2016, 3:43pm PDT

LA's landmarks are some of the best and most beautiful places to catch Pokémon (Pikachu has been spotted at Griffith Park!), which means you have another excuse to get out and explore the iconic spots for which LA is best-known.

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Mapping the development boom in DTLA's Historic Core

by Bianca Barragan Jun 27, 2016, 3:02pm PDT

Home to Grand Central Market and Pershing Square, this neighborhood has become a target for developers looking to build creative offices, residential towers, and even a new museum.

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These fancy buildings will transform the once scuzzy Sunset Strip

by Bianca Barragan Jun 23, 2016, 4:27pm PDT

The Sunset Strip is a magnet for high-end developments. As the Hustler stores of the Strip are replaced with expensive condos, starchitecture, and boutique hotels, the Sunset Strip is poised to become fancier than ever.

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10 great Los Angeles starter homes

by Jenna Chandler@jennakchandler Jun 21, 2016, 3:39pm PDT

As part of Curbed's big feature on first-time home buying, we set out to uncover 10 great starter homes in Los Angeles.

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Mapping the long history of oil drilling in LA

by Elijah Chiland Jun 10, 2016, 8:35am PDT

Take a look at some of the sites where the oil business has crossed paths with the communities of Los Angeles. Before Hollywood, the city was a boomtown that produced a huge portion of the world's supply of oil.

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The Kobe Bryant Map of Los Angeles

by Elijah Chiland Apr 13, 2016, 7:18pm PDT

Kobe Bryant is finishing up his historic career with the Lakers and Los Angeles is looking for its next great sports hero. In the meantime, take a look back at some of the spots that defined Bryant's time in Southern California.

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Map: The Walt Disney Guide to Los Angeles

by Bianca Barragan Mar 31, 2016, 2:20pm PDT

Take a tour through some of Walt Disney's many Los Angeles haunts—some are surviving, some are thriving, and some have been demolished, but because of their connections to Walt Disney, none of them will likely be forgotten.

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The 20 Most Expensive Houses For Sale in LA

by Bianca Barragan and Adrian Glick Kudler Mar 15, 2016, 3:00pm PDT

From the Playboy Mansion to monster spec houses, and every amenity in between.

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Rails to Trails: 7 Hikes Off the Gold Line

by Zach Behrens Mar 9, 2016, 2:48pm PST

With a brand new extension open now along the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, it's the perfect time to take the Gold Line to the trails.

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The OJ Simpson White Ford Bronco Chase Map of Los Angeles

by Adrian Glick Kudler Feb 2, 2016, 3:20pm PST

At 8:30 am on June 17, 1994, LAPD officials called OJ Simpson's lawyer Robert Shapiro and told him they were filing murder charges against Simpson for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, and that Simpson...

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The Lavish Los Angeles Mansions of Dictators' Kids, Plutocrats, and Other Shady Figures

by Bianca Barragan Dec 16, 2015, 1:55pm PST

The saga of the super illegal Bel Air megamansion at 901 Strada Vecchia, and the prolific megamansion developer behind it, Mohamed Hadid, has pitted Hadid against wealthy, exasperated neighbors, and in the process revealed how difficult it can to...

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A Mapped Introduction to Los Angeles's Many Varieties of Victorian Mansion

by Hadley Meares Dec 15, 2015, 2:00pm PST

There is something about the holidays that makes one think of Victorian houses, those gingerbread-style confections of multi-colored gables, towers, and spires that look like they could be home to Mr. and Mrs. Claus. It was during the Victorian...

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Map: Where to Experience Classic Winter All Over Los Angeles

by Curbed Dec 9, 2015, 2:06pm PST

In Los Angeles in 2015, we get our rain in a room at a museum and our snow at the mall—just the price we pay for living with the most beautiful weather in the US. Sure, there's a freak snow every once in a while, but mostly Los Angeles approaches...

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Mapping the Relentlessly Rising Coolness of LA's Arts District

by Bianca Barragan Nov 23, 2015, 1:10pm PST

The last year in Los Angeles's Arts District has been a banner one (again). An adaptive reuse project to transform an old Ford Motor company building into creative office space reportedly had BuzzFeed thinking about making a move to the...

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An Architectural Walking Tour of South LA's Stately and Historic West Adams Boulevard

by Bianca Barragan Nov 17, 2015, 2:02pm PST

West Adams Boulevard runs through what were the some of the most sought-after neighborhoods in Los Angeles at the turn of the Twentieth Century. Doctors, successful entrepreneurs, lawyers, and well-off widows commissioned houses here in styles...

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Map: The Strange and Wonderful Lost Amusement Parks of LA

by Adrian Glick Kudler Nov 12, 2015, 1:50pm PST

Today Los Angeles is known for its enormous but sterile corporate amusement parks: the Disney parks, Universal Studios, and even Knott's Berry Farm are fun enough, but also uptightly engineered to minimize their owners' exposure to lawsuits and...

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Touring Bela Lugosi's Los Angeles Haunts and Hangouts

by Bianca Barragan Oct 29, 2015, 3:47pm PDT

Hungarian-born actor Bela Lugosi helped usher in a golden age of horror films and rode the wave for as long as he could. He arrived in Los Angeles by way of New York, where he picked up enough English to get roles (small ones) onstage. His biggest...

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Mapping the Stars at LA's Famous Forest Lawn Memorial Park

by Bianca Barragan Oct 26, 2015, 3:35pm PDT

When the founder of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale first came to see the site in the 1910s, San Fernando Road was "an unpaved road where vehicles mired down when it rained and sank deep in dust when it didn't," writes Ralph Hancock in his...

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Mapping the Most Incredible Lost Mansions of Los Angeles

by Hadley Meares Oct 22, 2015, 3:25pm PDT

For a new city, Los Angeles has an awful lot of lost architecture. From the lush rural estates of early Angeleno pioneers to the Mid-Century masterpieces of Hollywood royalty, many architectural treasures have been torn down in the name of...

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The Ultimate Back to the Future Filming Location Map

by Curbed Oct 21, 2015, 11:03am PDT

Today is October 21, 2015, the day Marty McFly arrives from 1985 to find that everyone is writing about him on the internet, and that hoverboards are just Segways without handlebars. Yes, we are now as far out from the present day of Back to the...

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Mapping the 10 Most Expensive Places For Rent in Los Angeles

by Bianca Barragan Oct 8, 2015, 3:14pm PDT

By now, Los Angeles's high-rent rep is quite well-known, but it turns out that even in the super expensive reaches of the market, LA is a standout for its mega-expensive for-rent properties. Rental info site RentCafé has found the 10 most...

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Los Angeles's 20 Most Iconic Buildings, Mapped

by Bianca Barragan Sep 28, 2015, 11:00am PDT

Los Angeles's skyline might not be as famous as Chicago's or New York's, but thanks to Hollywood, we've got some buildings that are instantly identifiable as LA: Griffith Observatory, Union Station, the Walt...

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