No one has ever handled LA's notorious traffic jams as gracefully as the characters in La La Land's opening musical number, which was shot over two hot days on the 105/110 freeway overpass.

Een van de (vele) hoogtepunten: de Studio Tour door de Warner Bros Studios in LA

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Mia’s pink stucco apartment is a lovely example of the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture that helps define the look of LA, Long Beach included. Called Rose Towers, the 20-unit complex, built in 1928, was carefully restored 10 years ago. In writing about that preservation effort, the Los Angeles Times noted the building’s Moorish decorative motifs were “evident in graceful arches, multicolored tiles, wrought iron balconies and carved wooden doors.”

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This Hollywood Walk of Fame mural, depicting such famous actors as Richard Pryor, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and James Dean, sitting in a theater, serves as the exterior of the fictional restaurant from which Sebastian is fired.

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The observatory is "a monument the same way that the Arc de Triomphe or Big Ben are monuments, but those rise out of a clustered urban environment. Griffith sits atop a hill as if it’s in its own world. That speaks to the sprawl and the spirit of Los Angeles. It’s totally, authentically, ironically its own thing," director Damien Chazelle told Entertainment Weekly. It's an architectural stunner made all the more majestic by a beautiful couple floating through the air inside its planetarium.

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Grand Central Market, Downtown LA's gentrifying open-air market, featuring Chinese and Mexican food and hipster coffee and wine bars and pricy cheese and meats, is one of city's trendiest food destinations right now. It shows up only briefly in a montage of Mia and Sebastian's first dates.

As they continue to explore LA, Mia and Sebastian visit this famous folk art monument made from scrap metal and concrete and bedecked with drawings and tile and glass.

From 1901 to 1969, Angels Flight, a short railway, ferried passengers up and down Bunker Hill, which, at the turn of the 20th century, was one LA’s most fashionable neighborhoods. Service resumed in 1996 after it was rebuilt and relocated, but was suspended again in 2013 for safety reasons.La La Land got it up and running again for a shoot, though Downtown News has reported that the state public utilities commission said that should never have happened.

A John Legend performance was filmed inside the Art Deco music venue on the Miracle Mile.

Booking a ($435) room at The Chateau is proof you've made it in tinseltown. Congrats, Mia!

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Pre conference case of the snakebites

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