One of Spike Jonze's earliest music videos for the song "Country at War" by the LA punk rock band X features them performing outside on the corner of Glendale Boulevard and Edenhurst in Los Angeles, California in front of what is now a thrift store.

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The video for "Car Song" by the Britpop band Elastica, filmed in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, is a cross between Ghostbusters and Blade Runner with some Godzilla tossed in for the hell of it. The band's ghost chase leads them down into Shinjuku station, the busiest train station in the world and also where the Beastie Boys take it to another dimension in their video for "Intergalactic."

Watch "Car Song" directed by Spike Jonze

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One summer, the photographer Diane Arbus spent her time working in Washington Square Park. It was here in 1965 that she shot, "A young man and his pregnant wife in Washington Square Park, NY," among several others.

Upon recalling her interactions in the park, Arbus said the following:

"And there were these territories staked out. There were young hippie junkies down one row, lesbians down another—really tough, amazingly hardcore lesbians—and in the middle were winos. They were like the first echelon, and the girls who came from the Bronx to become hippies would have to sleep with the winos to get to sit on the other part with the junkie hippies. It was really remarkable and I found it very scary. I mean, I could become a million things, but I could never become that."

Hear Arbus tell the story in her own voice here.

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This address was the exterior for Robert Neville's (Will Smith) townhouse in the 2007 post-apocalyptic film I am Legend. The park directly across the street is also featured in the film, especially the Washington Square Park Arch.

I am Legend is the third remake of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name. The other films based on this book include 1964's The Last Man on Earth (starring Vincent Price) and 1971's The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston).

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The interiors of Robert Neville's (Will Smith) apartment were shot at this location for the 2007 post-apocalyptic film I am Legend.

The films Sherlock Holmes, 28 Days Later and Meet the Parents also shot at Marcy Avenue Amory.

In I am Legend, Will Smith fights zombies with his cunning, his German Shepherd, and his pull-ups strength. Singer Mike Patton provided the guttural screams of the infected "hemocytes."

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