When the plague came to Los Angeles “Little Mexico,” a bustling community near Olvera Street, was leveled in the name of sanitation ...

A tour of the lobby and two underground floors of the 1926 Subway Terminal Building as they prepare for retail redevelopment.

The real-life tower that made ‘Die Hard’ Nakatomi tower is really Fox Plaza in Century City, an example of 1980s power architecture at its finest ...

LA’s first cemeteries were defiled, dug up, and bulldozed in the name of progress.

From red Spanish Colonial rooftops to vibrant mosaics to rose pink bathroom vanities, Southern California is filled with tile. Whether big or small, monochromatic or multi-hued, tiles are ...

Los Angeles was Raymond Chandler’s muse, mistress, and his making. For his famous anti-hero, private eye Philip Marlowe, it is a torturous, nasty place filled with “tough-looking palm trees ...

In 1918, LA Times reporter Grace Kingsley went to visit Krotona, the national headquarters of the Theosophical Society. This idealistic community of around 300 or so was nestled in the hills of ...

What’s the best way to evacuate Los Angeles? When a wildfire or earthquake strikes, cars can’t be the only option ...

The weird roadside architecture of Los Angeles From Idle Hour to The Tamale, these buildings will make you do a double take ...

The Curbed guide to Southern California’s desert From storied ghost towns and and hardy, striking flora to iconic Palm Springs hot spots, we’re celebrating the divine desert landscape in LA ...

Eve Babitz's guide to Los Angeles Take a tour of the writer’s sexy, smoggy city of the 1960s and ’70s ...

Phillips Mansion: The deserted hub of a lost California town The grand brick estate was home to one of the founding fathers of the rough-and-tumble pueblo of Spadra ...