Every transplant to LA remembers their first house/apartment/couch, and for Walt, it was his uncle's place in Los Feliz; he came here in 1923, on the tail of a business failure back home in Missouri. Walt practiced animation techniques in the detached garage (which still exists elsewhere—more on that in a second) and within a few years he was living the dream, getting paid to animate and outgrowing his office space. The house was until the last few years a rental that neighbors knew as "that house that hosts the barbecue party every year," but in 2009 it went on the market.

Disney rented the garage at his uncle's Los Feliz house for $1 a month and used it to hone his craft. In 1984, the garage was saved from demolition and moved to Garden Grove, as a donation to the local historical society's Stanley Ranch Museum from the Disney fans who rallied to save the structure.

This Los Feliz building once housed what's considered the first "real" location of the Walt Disney Studios (though it was called Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio at the time). Beginning in 1923, Walt and his brother Roy worked together with another animator here on a series of shorts called Alice Comedies. They became successful enough that by 1926 they were able to move to a larger location.

Old Walt loved him some Tam O'Shanter. Conveniently located near his Hyperion studio, Walt was a regular customer with a favorite table (#31). "Even after Disney Studios moved into the Valley, Walt remained a regular," says KCET.

Walt had been living in a smaller, also lovely Los Feliz house on Lyric Avenue, but with the combination of his rising success and his wife's pregnancy, he moved to this house at the edge of Griffith Park, which he had built in 1932. The house sold most recently in 2011, to a mystery buyer who was reportedly planning on restoring it.

The site of Disney's storied Holmby Hills estate, built in the late 1940s, and its Carolwood Pacific Railroad (a one-eighth scale steam railroad that ran on one-eighth scale coal) is long gone now, replaced by a 2001 megamansion built for the owner of the Houston Dynamo soccer team. The property sold in 2014 for $74 million.

A couple of Walt's big, early successes premiered here—those included the Silly Symphonies and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was Disney's first full-length feature. The Carthay Circle Theatre was sadly demolished in 1969 ("presumably because it was no longer profitable," says the LA Conservancy), but a replica lives on at Disney's California Adventure theme park in Anaheim.

In 1938, Walt put money down on 51 acres in Burbank, and in 1940 his new studios were up and running. The Burbank campus includes a couple of buildings that were previously at the Hyperion location (the others were demolished)—one, a small bungalow that once held offices for Disney's Publicity and Comic Strip departments, is now used as meeting room space.

Walt was a key figure in the founding of this Valencia arts college. The idea began "partly as a clever way to funnel an army of skilled animators into the Disney studios," the LA Times wrote in 1994; a film about the school's "founding vision" was even played before the premiere of Mary Poppins. The full plan for CalArts wasn't realized until a few years after Walt's death, but the Disney family continues to be involved in the school's direction.