The scenes of Angel’s mansion were filmed at the Ennis-Brown house in the Griffith Park area of L.A (2607 Glendower Ave). The Ennis-Brown house is an official city landmark. It was designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Mabel and Charles Ennis in 1924. The house is open for …

The scenes between Willow and Giles in the episode Lessons were actually filmed on location at Anthony Stewart Head’s house in England. They were directed by Joss Whedon. The place is named as Westbury in the show, but he actually lives near Bath in Somerset. Westbury is in Wiltshire and …

In Chosen, everyone walks into a the school, ready for the final fight. That school is actually California State University, Northridge, located in the San Fernando Valley in California.

Some graveyard scenes were shot at the Angelus Rosedale cemetery (yes, really!) in Los Angeles, which can be found at 1831 W. Washington Blvd. In season two, the crew built their own fake graveyard in the parking lot of the Buffy studios, which made filming easier.

The hold of the plane that Kendra arrived in, in What’s My Line? (Part 1), was saved and changed so that it could be used as a sewer tunnel in later episodes.

Gareth Davies, a Buffy producer, revealed to the BBC that Glory’s tower at the end of season five (seen in The Gift) nearly became a hazard. He said:
“We found a company which had what looked like a huge oil derrick in its front yard… The Art Department went down and …

The scene in which Judy and Angel meet before she attends the theatre in ‘Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been?’ was filmed at the Griffith Park Observatory located at the top of Mount Hollywood. The Observatory is one of the highest spots in Los Angeles, offering fantastic …

Before she moved to Sunnydale, Buffy attended Hemery High in L.A. The school was also the setting of the 1992 Buffy movie. Buffy was expelled from there as she burned down the gym (there was a bunch of vampires in there at the time). We see her in a flashback …

Angel Investigations moved into Hyperion Hotel in season two. Exterior shots of the hotel were filmed at Los Altos Hotel & Apartments, located at 4121 Wilshire Blvd. The building is on the National Register of Historical Places. Built in 1925, Hollywood stars including Bette Davis, Mae West, Judy Garland and …

The ice rink seen in the episode What’s My Line? (Part 1) is called Iceland, and is located at 8041 Jackson Street in Paramount, California. This is fairly close (about 25 miles) from where Buffy is filmed on set. In that episode, Angel invites Buffy to go ice skating by …

The Initiative lab (in which Spike is kept caged in The Initiative) is actually a very small set, made to look bigger using mirrors. You can see at the beginning of the episode that the corridor is very long, but when Spike escapes, it’s only very short.

The Initiative set is at a place called “Skunk Works” which is about an hour south of L.A. The building used to be the location where stealth bombers were built. The big white balls on the main Initiative set are both an homage to 60s cult TV show The Prisoner …

The cast and crew of Angel went on location to Las Vegas for this episode The House Always Wins. Though the action was set at the Tropicana, much of the filming took place inside the Riviera Hotel.

Joss Whedon says that in Buffy’s dream sequence in the lecture hall in Hush, he wanted the set to look as full as possible so got everyone who was on set or in the production office that day to sit in the hall. He even sat people in the aisles …

The scenes of “Istanbul” in Lessons were actually filmed at Universal Studios, and the graveyard shown in the teaser was built indoors.