I was thrilled when I got the chance to go on the roof of the Capitol Tower. I have a friend that used to be a head honcho there and he arranged a trip to the roof. I had to be accompanied by a security guard (right around the corner out of sight)
The view was so all-encompassing that the only choice was to take a panorama, I spent hours on the processing because I wasn't allowed to use a tripod, and only had a few minutes up there. I had to fix a lot of little parallax errors and flaws in photoshop, but in the end it came out great. You can see all the way to Downtown LA in the distance on the left, and nearby Hollywood on the right.