It was during the Victorian era, from 1837 to 1901, that Los Angeles transformed from a small, dusty Mexican outpost into a Gilded Age American boom town. Thousands of homes were built during this ...

Federal transportation officials committed Tuesday to funding a $1.3 billion grant for a project set to bring subway service to Los Angeles’s Westside. That money is expected to cover more than ...

LA’s haunted landmarks and their ghost stories, mapped From the Colorado Street Bridge to the Hollywood Sign ...

From beachfront parks in Santa Monica to hillside spots in Griffith Park with city views, these are the best places to lay down a blanket and dig into a picnic spread.

The story of Downtown Los Angeles is one of continual renovation, repurposing, and rebranding. But a surprising number of buildings and public spaces have endured for decades, from the gilded age ...

The stories behind LA’s famous (and strange) street names The origins are both common and weird, from cult leaders to old Mexican ranchos to the pets and family members of real estate subdividers ...

With 472 neighborhoods, this detailed map of Los Angeles is impressively thorough.

West Adams Boulevard runs through some of the most sought-after neighborhoods of 20th century Los Angeles. Doctors, successful entrepreneurs, lawyers, and well-off widows commissioned houses here ...

With a portfolio of properties reportedly worth $400 million in Hollywood alone (paid for in cash no less), the Church of Scientology is undeniably a formidable player in the real estate game. It ...

Rebellion and rock ‘n’ roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s How go-go dancing teens—and the underage clubs that embraced them—turned the Strip technicolor ...

For a new city, Los Angeles has an awful lot of lost architecture. From the lush rural estates of early Angeleno pioneers to the midcentury masterpieces of Hollywood royalty, many architectural ...

Los Angeles isn’t particularly well known for its streetlights. Maybe it should be. Not because we have the most streetlights (today that number hovers around 220,000, while Chicago’s ...