Walt Disney Studios
Snow White's box-office earnings built this place — a 51-acre working studio lot that has run continuously since 1940.
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Industrial architect Kem Weber designed the campus in Streamline Moderne style, centering it on a "double-H" Animation Building with eight wings engineered specifically to flood artists' desks with natural light. Stage 3, completed in 1953, was built with a deep water tank for the underwater sequences in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
What to look for
- The double-H Animation Building: eight wings arranged to maximize daylight for animators
- Stage 3, built in 1953 with a deep water tank purpose-designed for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- The studio water tower, distinctive enough that a replica is being built at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida
Located in Burbank, not central Los Angeles — confirm current tour or public access before making the trip, as this remains an active studio headquarters.
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More to see in Los Angeles
- Hollywood Walk of Fame2,850 names pressed into pink terrazzo underfoot — actors, inventors, fictional characters, all at six-foot intervals for 1.3 miles.
- Dolby TheatreThe red carpet runs up these stairs every awards season — where Hollywood officially crowns its year.
- SoFi StadiumA million-square-foot canopy embedded with 27,000 LED pucks bright enough to be seen from planes descending into LAX.
- Hollywood SignA 1923 real-estate billboard that refused to come down — and ended up owning the word "Hollywood" itself.
- U.S. Bank TowerLA sold the sky above a fire-gutted library to fund its own rebuilding — and got its second-tallest tower in the bargain.
- Rose BowlA century-old sunken oval where the 1994 World Cup Final was settled — and the 2028 Olympics will return to do it again.