The Vliet family lived at this home in Los Angeles when Don was born. He was an artistically-inclined child and began to paint and sculpt at the age of 3.

When Don was 9 years old, he won a children's sculpting competition organized for the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park by sculptor Agostinho Rodrigues.

During the 1950s, Don continued to work with Rodrigues, who considered him a child prodigy. Eventually, Vliet was offered several art scholarships, including one from Knudsen Creamery to travel to Europe and study marble sculpture for 6 years. The Vliet family was hesitant, and Don turned all the scholarships down.

At the age of 13, the Vliet family moved to the Mojave Desert town of Lancaster, CA. Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa would end up attending the same high school there.

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This house (more of a cabin, really) is where Don van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) coerced, bullied, and brain-washed the Magic Band into creating content for the 1969 album Trout Mask Replica.

For eight months, the band lived communally in this house and rehearsed endlessly. Only one band member was allowed to leave at a time to get food, which for a month consisted of one small cup of soybeans daily. Visitors to the house recalled the members looking "cadaverous" and that "the environment in that house was positively Manson-esque."

The bizarre rehearals meant that the band was able to record 20 instrumental tracks in a single six-hour recording session. Trout Mask Replica remains an influential album, despite it being unbearable to casual listeners.

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The lobby of the Lido Hotel was the stand-in for the interior of The Eagles' fictional hotel in the Hotel California album's inside cover. According to a persistent myth, Anton LaVey is keeping watch over the gathering from the upstairs window... if you squint you might be able to make him out.

The building, which dates back to the 1920s, has been renovated and converted to apartments. The hotel in the photo on the album cover is the Beverly Hills Hotel.

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Before Bruce Willis began sleepwalking through the role of John McClane he first defended Nakatomi Plaza against Hans Gruber on Christmas Eve in 1988.

The real-life Fox Plaza is home to Twentieth Century Fox's official headquarters.

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The Garcia house is a residence on Mulholland Drive built by architect John Lautner in 1962. It's sometimes called the Rainbow House due to its arched roof and the colorful stained glass windows.

In Lethal Weapon 2, it's the base of South African drug dealers, and Riggs destroys the building by pulling it down the hill with his pickup truck.

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