Michael McNamara

The Black Dahlia “murder home” 5121 Franklin Ave., Los Angeles, 90027 One of L.A.’s most notorious unsolved murders took place in this classic Lloyd Wright-designed house in Los Feliz — at least according to a former LAPD detective who wrote a book in which he made the sensational allegation that his own father, Dr. George Hodel, murdered and dismembered Elizabeth Short (a.k.a. the Black Dahlia) in a secret room in the home in1947. The distinctive design of the home, with its exotic Mayan-temple feel and textile-block construction — one of Lloyd Wright’s trademark flourishes — has made it an in-demand location for parties and film crews.