Offbeat Activities in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is sometimes a little impenetrable, but if you stick in there and start to learn your way around the place is full of fascinating and odd places to discover.
This city has a lot of architecturally highlights, especially Art Deco and modern buildings. Santa Anita Park and the downtown Coca-Cola building are two examples of Los Angeles Art Deco.
L.A. has often been portrayed as the city of the future and indeed it was so when the Los Angeles area established a model for a suburban, car-based metropolis in the '50s. The googie-style commercial vernacular from this era is another L.A. highlight (places like Pann's and Mel's). And of course there are always the dingbat apartement buildings.
L.A. has been home to an astonishing array of religious movements, some of which have an impact on the landscape. The Self-Realization Fellowship's Lake Shrine is a garden around a small lake that is open to the public; I have so say that being in the presence of Ghandi's ashes there is moving. Eastern religion has been very present in Los Angeles, a few more examples are listed here.
Christianity is definitely on the scene too, with notable places like the Angelus Temple, Church of Our Lady the Queen of the the Angels, and the Crystal Cathedral.
And lastly, if tombs are your thing, check out this cemetery run-through listing some of the fabulous ones.
This city has a lot of architecturally highlights, especially Art Deco and modern buildings. Santa Anita Park and the downtown Coca-Cola building are two examples of Los Angeles Art Deco.
L.A. has often been portrayed as the city of the future and indeed it was so when the Los Angeles area established a model for a suburban, car-based metropolis in the '50s. The googie-style commercial vernacular from this era is another L.A. highlight (places like Pann's and Mel's). And of course there are always the dingbat apartement buildings.
L.A. has been home to an astonishing array of religious movements, some of which have an impact on the landscape. The Self-Realization Fellowship's Lake Shrine is a garden around a small lake that is open to the public; I have so say that being in the presence of Ghandi's ashes there is moving. Eastern religion has been very present in Los Angeles, a few more examples are listed here.
Christianity is definitely on the scene too, with notable places like the Angelus Temple, Church of Our Lady the Queen of the the Angels, and the Crystal Cathedral.
And lastly, if tombs are your thing, check out this cemetery run-through listing some of the fabulous ones.
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
1218 Glendon Avenue
(South of Wilshire)
For stars who have faded away...
Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park
1765 East 107th Street
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