Bradbury Building

The skylit atrium of the Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles, a five-story office block from 1893 laced with wrought-iron stairs and open cage elevators. Ridley Scott used it for J.F. Sebastian's apartment building and the rooftop scene in Blade Runner (1982), where it looks dark and decaying; in daylight it is warm brick and golden light instead. Only the ground floor is open to the public, but it is free, and from the lobby you can look straight up through the ironwork.