Let's Make A Day of It: All-Day Excursions Into The Secret Heart of Southern California... plus silent film locations tours return!

EXCITING NEW TOURS JUST POSTED

Desert Visionaries • Architectural Gems of Riverside
Silent Echoes with John Bengtson

DID YOU KNOW...? Esotouric tours are now posted through June, and include two of the all-day excursions that our regular "gentle riders" been clamoring for, along with a weekend of silent film location tours hosted by early cinema sleuth John Bengtson.

If you're passionate about Southern California lore and exploring the architecture and secrets of this fascinating place in good company, we've got so much to share with you. So what's new?

• Special Event: Architectural Gems of Riverside (Saturday, May 9): an all-day outing curating the best of the city's Doors Open landmark celebration and some special Esotouric surprises, and including three-course lunch in a National Register packinghouse

• Pasadena Confidential (Saturday, May 16): the mysteries and histories of the Crown City revealed through the filter of weird crimes, rocket science, black magic and monkeys

• Weird West Adams (Saturday, May 30): once upon a time in Los Angeles, new suburbs sprouted like mushrooms, and their residents got up to all kinds of trouble in architecturally distinguished crime scenes

• Special Event: Desert Visionaries: Llano del Rio, St. Andrew’s Monastery & Antelope Valley Indian Museum (Saturday, June 6): an all-day outing in the footsteps of three generations of visionary seekers, from Utopian Socialists to Psychedelic Scribes to Kooky Curators, including lunch at mid-century jewel St. Andrew's Abbey

• Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice (Saturday, June 13): Downtown Los Angeles is full of time capsule landmarks that illuminate the dark side of local history, from crime syndicates run out of City Hall to dime-a-dance dives where plots turn deadly

• Special Event: Silent Echoes Tour (Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21): Last year's tours were a sold out smash, so here are two more opportunities to join author John Bengtson (“the great detective of silent film locations” – New York Times) on a cinema safari in the footsteps of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd

• Eastside Babylon (Saturday, June 27): Our most unhinged true crime and cultural history tour includes a visit to the world's biggest tamale, the carnival graves of Evergreen Cemetery and the sleepy neighborhood where Night Stalker Richard Ramirez was captured by enraged locals