From the Eastern Columbia Building in Downtown Los Angeles to the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro, here are our picks for the most amazing examples of Art Deco architecture in Los Angeles.
Sam Lubell, author of the newly released "The Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide" shares his picks for 15 must-see West Coast modern sites. His evocative descriptions are accompanied by jaw dropping photos by Darren Bradley.
Entertaining family or friends over the holidays? Here are 13 locations to take them. We've picked destinations that aren't entirely off the beaten path but aren't typical tourist spots.
Los Angeles has come into its own, embracing its unique and incredibly diverse history and culture. Whether you're age two or 62, behold, the 24 best destinations in LA for families and kids.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
