Sure, you recognize that old Victorian house where Prue, Piper & Phoebe live in the TV series "CHARMED." But did you know that some scenes from the show are shot on location at an actual Victorian home in L.A.? Well, it is. You'll find it on Carroll Avenue, a public street near Echo Park, which features a cluster of historical Victorian homes preserved for posterity. The familiar "Halliwell House" is on the north side of the street, near its east end. The exact address is 1329 Carroll Avenue, about a mile northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

The 2001 season premiere episode of Charmed (where Prue died and was replaced with Paige) had scenes shot on location at two familiar local spots:

• The funeral scenes (with the girls near Prue's casket) were shot inside a real mausoleum. In fact, it was the very same mausoleum where silent-screen legend Rudolph Valentino is buried, at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Hollywood (which is next to Paramount Studios). The address is 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard.
  
  
• The church scene, where Paige learns to levitate a candle (and where the girls are attacked by a demon) was shot at St. Vincent de Paul church, north of the USC campus. It's the same beautiful church used extensively in the filming of Arnold Schwarzenegger's horror film, "End of Days." The address is is 621 W. Adams Blvd, south of downtown L.A.
  
  
  

The scenes set at Sunnydale High School in TV's popular "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER" were actually shot on location at Torrance High School (at 2200 W. Carson Street) in the city of Torrance (in the South Bay region).

Just three blocks north of Torrance High (Sunnydale) is Buffy's house, where she stays with her mother on the series. You'll find it at 1313 Cota Drive in Torrance. (It's a private residence, so don't disturb the occupants.)

Now that Buffy has graduated high school and moved on to college, many of the outdoor campus scenes in her first season at college were shot at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Westwood.

When shooting at UCLA became too difficult due to crowding, they shifted most of the outdoor campus scenes over to the CF Braun Business Park, located at 1000 S. Fremont Avenue, in Alhambra.

Ever wonder where they shoot the cemetery scenes for "Buffy"? Well, it isn't always in a real cemetery. (The producers set up some fake headstones in the parking lot of their Santa Monica studio.) But most of the scenes that were obviously shot in a large cemetery are usually shot at the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, located at 1831 W. Washington Blvd., just south of Koreatown. It's a very real cemetery, and one of the oldest in Los Angeles. Actress Hattie McDaniel (the first African-American to win an Academy Award, for "Gone With the Wind") and Anna May Wong (one of Hollywood's first Asian actresses) are buried at Rosedale. *

While we're on the subject of "Buffy", in season two, Angel (David Boreanaz) took up residence in a deserted mansion, along with Spike and Drusilla. By the third season, he had returned from hell and stayed at the mansion until his own show was spun-off in the fourth season. So where was Angel's Mansion really located? Well, it's also here in L.A., high atop a hill in the Griffith Park area. It's really the Ennis-Brown house, an official city landmark designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The address is 2607 Glendower Ave. It's even open for public tours. (And it has its own website at www.ennisbrownhouse.org.)

Actually, the house has been in a number of films and productions, including the classic 1959 horror movie "The House on Haunted Hill," the 1981 sci-fi classic "Blade Runner" (where it served as Harrison Ford's apartment) and "Twin Peaks."

Well, for once the script and reality agree - it's right here in L.A., and it really is an historic hotel with old Hollywood connections. In fact, it's on the National Register of Historical Places. It's actually the Los Altos Hotel & Apartments, located at 4121 Wilshire Blvd. It was built back in 1925, and in its heyday it housed Hollywood stars such as Douglas Fairbanks, Clara Bow, Bette Davis, Mae West, Judy Garland and Loretta Young. Rumor has it that William Randolph Hearst once kept his mistress, actress Marion Davies, in the penthouse apartment. It's located on the north side of Wilshire, just east of Crenshaw Blvd.

If you're driving through Culver City, near the former MGM Studios, you might recognize this unusual, cantilevered building as the headquarters of Wolfram & Hart, the demonic law firm that is the chief nemesis of "ANGEL".

In the real world, the building is the Sony Pictures Plaza, located right across the street from the main gate of Sony Studios, (at 10202 W. Washington Blvd.), The building is on the east side of Madison Ave., between Washington Blvd and Culver Blvd in Culver City.

• There is a fight scene in front of the Shrine Auditorium in the episode "Heartthrob".
  
  
• In the same episode, there is a subway chase, which was filmed at the Hollywood Red Line subway station, (underground) beneath Hollywood & Highland.
  
  
• Angel and Judy visit the Griffith Park Observatory after dark in the episode "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" - which explores the history of the Hyperion hotel.