50 Abandoned Hotels That Are Frozen in Time
47. The Ambassador Hotel – Los Angeles, USA
Infamous as the site of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, the Ambassador Hotel was once a glittering beacon of Hollywood nightlife. Built in 1921, it hosted six Academy Awards and countless celebrities, from Marilyn Monroe to Frank Sinatra. But by the 1980s, crime and decline in the neighborhood spelled its doom. Though partially demolished in 2005, parts of the hotel—like the haunted Cocoanut Grove nightclub—were left eerily intact for years. Vines crept through Art Deco ruins while chandeliers swayed in silence. Few ruins carry such palpable echoes of history, glamour, and grief. The Ambassador didn’t just fall—it reverberated.
