bus adventures into the secret heart of Los Angeles


April 8, 2017

Get on the bus as Esotouric heads to the Palos Verdes Peninsula for an all-new one-time-only bus adventure, one of our 10th Anniversary special events.

On this action packed excursion, we’ll delve …

April 22, 2017

“[This tour is] a poetic journey full of rare insight into the life of a man who’s come to represent the ghettoized contingency of the City of Angels.” – Tanja M. Laden, Flavorpill

“Haunts of a Dir…

April 30, 2017

Free with RSVP from http://www.lavatransforms.org/salon417

This edition of the LAVA Sunday Salon and Broadway on My Wind walking tour looks at the history of Fort Hill in Downtown Los Angeles and t…

May 20, 2017
Weird West Adams crime bus tour at The Esotouric Bus

On this guided tour through the Beverly Hills of the early 20th Century, Crime Bus passengers thrill as Jazz Age bootleggers run amok, marvel at the Krazy Kafitz family’s litany of murder-suicides, at…

May 28, 2017

This edition of the LAVA Sunday Salon and Broadway on My Wind walking tour focuses on Charles Bukowski, as seen through the eyes of Los Angeles poet S.A. Griffin.

The program begins with a talk in …

June 3, 2017

This is the definitive tour of Tom Waits’ formative creative life in Los Angeles, and the people, places and late night pastries that shaped it. Calling all rain dogs, gin-soaked boys and Gun Street …

June 8, 2017
Siege at Fort Anthony at Los Angeles Public Library - Central

To ensure a seat at this free LAPL event, please register. There are no “plus ones,” so each person should sign up with their own name and email address. This is just one in a series of special events…

June 17, 2017

In this special event bus adventure, part of Esotouric’s tenth anniversary celebrations, we’ll explore the Southern California dream as it has manifested through creative residents of the Antelope Val…

June 25, 2017

This edition of the LAVA Sunday Salon and Broadway on My Wind walking tour focuses on the holy grail of Los Angeles mass transit history: the sealed-off streetcar station and tunnel located beneath th…

July 15, 2017
The Real Black Dahlia tour at The Daily Dose

“This bus tour… has established itself as an L.A. classic.” -The Los Angeles Times

The Black Dahlia murder in 1947 is the most compelling unsolved crime Los Angeles has ever known. What Jack the Ri…

July 22, 2017

“[This tour is] a poetic journey full of rare insight into the life of a man who’s come to represent the ghettoized contingency of the City of Angels.” – Tanja M. Laden, Flavorpill

“Haunts of a Dir…

August 13, 2017
Forensic science seminar: Bombs & Decomp at Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center

The Los Angeles Visionaries Association, Esotouric and Professor Donald Johnson invite you to the Cal State Los Angeles teaching crime lab for an afternoon’s inquiry into the history and practice of f…

September 23, 2017

In this special event bus adventure, part of Esotouric’s tenth anniversary celebrations, bomb detective Mike Digby takes us on a scrupulously researched journey through early Los Angeles, bringing one…

September 30, 2017

Climb aboard the Esotouric crime bus and discover the unwritten history of the sleepy suburb that birthed the American dream factory. From literary lions to criminal masterminds, terror plots to teena…