The Fast and the Furious: Dom Toretto's Los Angeles

Before the first heist, the film introduces Brian O'Conner in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium, where he drifts a 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse. The ballpark has been the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers since it opened in 1962, and it is the oldest Major League ballpark west of the Mississippi River. It stands in Elysian Park, just north of downtown, and the lot still serves the stadium.

Visitor guidance: The stadium and its parking lots are in Elysian Park, just north of downtown Los Angeles.

In the film this corner grocery is Toretto's Market & Cafe, the shop Mia runs and where Brian first insinuates himself into Dom's world. Vince grows suspicious of him here and picks a fight. The real address is 1234 Bellevue Avenue at Kensington Road, and the building stands in Angelino Heights, the Echo Park neighbourhood where Dom lives. It is a working neighbourhood grocery, so go in as a customer rather than as a film tourist.

Visitor guidance: It is a working grocery at 1234 Bellevue Avenue; shop rather than treat it as a set.

Brian's cover job is at Harry's garage, the aftermarket parts shop where Dom's crew and Hector come to buy performance parts. Dom threatens to fire him from it after the fight at the market, and Harry talks him round. The real building is an anonymous address at 1046 North Orange Drive in Hollywood, just south of Santa Monica Boulevard. It is a drive-by location on a working street.

Visitor guidance: Drive past 1046 North Orange Drive, just south of Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood.

The first big nighttime meet happens alongside the warehouses on Clock Street, south of downtown, where Brian brings a modified 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse RS and wagers it against Dom. The warehouses are the old Alameda Square complex, built as the Los Angeles Terminal Market between 1917 and 1923 at the end of the Southern Pacific Railroad line. It is now ROW DTLA, 30 acres of shops, restaurants and offices. The race is fiction; the warehouse blocks and industrial streets are still the setting.

Visitor guidance: ROW DTLA is on South Alameda Street, with shops and restaurants open to the public.

The race itself was shot on Prairie Avenue between 120th and 118th Streets in Hawthorne, just south of Imperial Highway. Brian, Dom and two other drivers line up; Brian's car malfunctions and Dom wins, then LAPD officers arrive and Dom flees. Brian helps him escape. It is an ordinary Hawthorne street, which is the point: no canyon roads, no set dressing, just a long straight of asphalt. The blocks are public roads, so treat this as a drive-by rather than a place to stop and race.

Visitor guidance: Prairie Avenue is a public street in Hawthorne; drive the block between 120th and 118th Streets.

Dom's house is the film's domestic anchor. After Tran and Lance destroy Brian's Eclipse, the pair return here in a cab, and Dom reminds Brian that he still owes him a ten-second car. The address used in the film is 722 East Kensington Road, on the hilly streets of Angelino Heights in Echo Park, the neighbourhood where Dom lives. Much of the film was shot in Angelino Heights, Silver Lake and Echo Park, and the house still stands on its residential street.

Dominic stops off at Neptune's Net, the seafood shack and biker-surfer hangout on the Pacific Coast Highway at Malibu. The restaurant has been here since 1956, when the site was a gas station, real-estate office and diner called Panorama Pacific at Solimar; Chong Lee and his wife Michelle have owned it since 1991. It was already a film veteran: Neptune's Net appears in Point Break, Fast and Furious and Iron Man 3, though Iron Man 3 rebuilt it in a studio. The address is 42505 Pacific Coast Highway.

Visitor guidance: It is an open restaurant at 42505 Pacific Coast Highway; expect a busy roadside car park.

Race Wars, the drag meet where Jesse loses his father's Volkswagen Jetta to Tran's Honda S2000, was staged at San Bernardino International Airport. The shoot drew more than 1,500 import car owners and enthusiasts. The airport lies two miles southeast of downtown San Bernardino on the site of the former Norton Air Force Base, covers 1,329 acres and has one runway. It is active infrastructure, not an event venue: the terminals and runway are working airport ground.

The film opens with a heist crew escaping along the Terminal Island Freeway, and it ends on Terminal Way, where Brian and Dom agree to a quarter-mile race over a railroad crossing. The race is a draw until a passing truck t-bones Dom's car; Brian hands over the keys to his Supra instead of arresting him. The port roads are freight infrastructure, busy with trucks serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The freeway's isolation has also made it a standby for film crews, including Terminator 2.