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Chinese Historical Society of Southern California

Wednesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sunday, noon-4:30 p.m. Docent guided tours of Chinatown, a unique and still perplexing community, are available for groups of 10 or more.

415 Bernard St., (323) 222-0856 or chssc.org.

Downtown Center Business Improvement District Tours

Fridays and Saturdays: The Friday tours are for walkers, and focus on opening a business Downtown. Saturday’s bus tours, which visit several area loft projects, are for tour goers interested in moving Downtown.

Visit downtownla.com.

Downtown Los Angeles Business Walking Tour

Friday, twice a month: A primer in all the major Downtown hotspots — new developments such as L.A. Live, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, new loft buildings and quality office space.

Visit downtownla.com.

Los Angeles River FOLAR Tours

These tours, created by Friends of the Los Angeles River, convene at the River Center (near the 5 and 110 freeways) where carpools are formed and the tour is laid out. Then the fun begins, with stops at the Sepulveda Basin in the Valley, the Glendale Narrows across from Griffith Park, the historic Arroyo Seco confluence, the Los Angeles State Historic Park (which is to say, the Cornfield) and the heart of industrial Downtown.

(323) 223-0585 or folar.org/rivertours.

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Daily. The Concert Hall hosts a variety of tours: audio, matinée public guided tours, lunchtime expresses and a walk through the Urban Garden. Call for each day's schedule.

111 S. Grand Ave., (323) 850-2000 or wdch.com.

Wall Street of the West Tour

Every fourth Saturday of the month. The L.A. Conservancy leads a tour of Spring Street, once the West Coast’s center of finance. Tour starts 10 a.m. and lasts until 12:30 p.m. $10, $5 for members.

Call (213) 623-2489 or laconservancy.org.

Esotouric

Enjoy well-researched, often darkly funny tours of an L.A. of old — where musicians, writers and architects, and (usually separately) criminals toil. The company does tours all over L.A.; listed below are Downtown options.

Oct. 9, Nov.13, Dec. 11: The Hippodrome rolls for Downtown L.A. Art Walk.

Oct. 25: The company’s most grisly crime bus tour, Halloween Horrors With Crimebo the Clown.

Nov. 1: Noir November: The Real Black Dahlia.

Nov. 8: Noir November: The Birth of Noir, James M. Cain’s SoCal Nightmare.

Nov. 22: Noir November: Hotel Horrors and Main Street Vice.

Dec. 6: Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s L.A.

Visit esotouric.com.

Raymond Chandler Walking Tour

Oct. 18, 10 a.m.: Free hard-boiled detective tours of Downtown, based on the book “Tailing Philip Marlowe.”

Starts at Caravan Books, 550 S. Grand Ave., (213) 626-9944.

Starline Tour

This tour, which operates seven days a week from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., has a “hop-on-hop-off” policy.

Thirteen stops, beginning at Olvera Street and ending at L.A. Live, visit starlinetours.com.