Los Angeles
A self-guided audio walking tour of Los Angeles, United States
This self-guided audio walking tour of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, United States covers 12 narrated stops over roughly 60 minutes and about 2.1 km on foot. Press play in the PodWalk app and each stop is narrated automatically as you arrive — walk at your own pace, online or fully offline. The route runs from Lindbergh Beacon to Spring Street Courthouse. Expect a focus on history and hidden gems.
Download free, then play this walk in Los Angeles — narration starts automatically at each stop, online or off.
The route, stop by stop
Lindbergh Beacon
Look up. That tower has been broadcasting a signal since 1928 — not radio, not television, but…
Frank Putnam Flint Fountain
A senator gets a fountain. That's how a city announces it has arrived — not just with skylines and beacons, but with bronze and stone set into the ground where people…
Times Mirror Square
For eighty years, the Los Angeles Times ran this city from this block — printing the paper, shaping the politics, deciding what downtown was supposed to…
Roeder Blocks
Two buildings, one developer, one bet on a neighborhood that was still making up its mind about what it wanted to…
Tajo Building
Simona Martinez Bradbury didn't name this building after herself. She named it after a silver mine in Mexico — the Tajo mine, the source of the Bradbury family's…
International Savings & Exchange Bank Building
In 1907, someone decided that Spring Street needed another bank — and not just any bank, but one that announced itself in the language of Renaissance…
Fletcher Bowron Square
Nineteen seventy-five. The city names a square after a mayor who's been dead for two years, and plants a plaza where there used to be something else…
Bella Union Hotel
In 1845, the governor of Mexican California held court not in a palace or a statehouse, but in a hotel. That hotel stood right here — or rather, under…
1971 L.A. federal building bombing
In 1845, the governor of Mexican California held court not in a palace or a statehouse, but in a hotel. That hotel stood right here—or rather, under here, beneath the plaza you just…
Don Abel Stearns House
January 28, 1971. Four-thirty in the afternoon. A second-floor men's room in the federal building at 300 North Los Angeles Street. A bomb…
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
The question this place is asking is a simple one: what do you do with a neighborhood that the city spent a century…
Spring Street Courthouse
The question this place is asking is the same one you've been walking toward all morning: what do you do when a neighborhood's certainties have been erased, and all that's left is the ground they were built…
These are the opening lines of each stop. The full narration — and the audio — plays in the app.
Los Angeles walking tour — good to know
- How long is the Los Angeles walking tour?
- About 60 minutes on foot, covering 12 stops over 2.1 km. You can pause and pick it back up whenever you like.
- What does the Los Angeles audio tour cover?
- 12 narrated stops, beginning at Lindbergh Beacon and ending at Spring Street Courthouse. Each one plays automatically as you reach it.
- Do I need an internet connection or mobile data?
- No. Download the walk once in the PodWalk app and the narration plays fully offline — handy while roaming in United States. GPS triggers each stop as you arrive.
- Is the Los Angeles audio tour free?
- Your first walk on PodWalk is free. After that, walks come through one-time passes from $2.99 — there's no subscription and nothing auto-renews.
- Can I do the tour at my own pace?
- Yes. There's no guide and no schedule — start when you want, linger as long as you like, and the next stop plays automatically when you get there.
Walk Los Angeles with PodWalk
Free to download. Your first walk is free, and you can download this one for fully offline use.