These five shiny glazed, cylindrical towers put LA on the map in 1976 in terms of architecture. Home to 1,354 rooms, the hotel's unusual layout has earned it a role in many movies and TV series (Hancock, Mission Impossible). The mall-like, six-story inner atrium is composed of several levels of shops, restaurants and meeting places. You don't have to be a guest of the hotel to take a ride on the glazed elevators on the outside of the building, commanding fantastic views of downtown and the Los Angeles Basin.