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    • True Crime
      • The Real Black Dahlia
      • Pasadena Confidential
      • Blood & Dumplings
      • Echo Park Book Of The Dead
      • Eastside Babylon
      • Hollywood!
      • Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice
      • Weird West Adams
      • Wild Wild Westside
      • John Buntin’s L.A. Noir
      • James Ellroy Digs L.A.
    • Literary
      • In A Lonely Place: Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles
      • Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s Los Angeles
      • The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain’s Southern California Nightmare
      • John Fante’s Dreams from Bunker Hill
    • California Culture
      • The Lowdown on Downtown
      • Boyle Heights & The San Gabriel Valley: The Hidden Histories of L.A.’s Melting Pot
      • South L.A. Road Trip: Hot Rods, Adobes, Googie & Early Modernism
      • Route 66 Road Trip: Roadside Architecture, Citrus, Drive-Ins & Cemeteries
    • Rock & Roll
      • Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits’ L.A.
      • Where The Action Was rock history tour
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About Us

We’re not your ordinary tour company.

Our routes veer off into fascinating, neglected neighborhoods. Our expert guides are passionate, brainy and hilarious. Our tour themes are provocative and complex, but never dry, mixing crime and social history, rock and roll and architecture, literature and film, fine art and urban studies into a simmering stew of original research and startling observations.

Even our snack stops are unique: a Chinese dumpling picnic in a garden of concrete sea monsters, donuts in the parking lot of Charles Bukowski's favorite liquor store, or Raymond Chandler-inspired gelato at Scoops in East Hollywood.

When you climb aboard for an Esotouric bus adventure, you’re guaranteed an intelligent, unpredictable ride into the secret heart of the city we love. These tours are recommended for natives, tourists and anyone who likes to dig a little deeper and discover the world beyond the everyday. Come ride and see for yourself.

Kim & Richard

Kim & Richard, who run Esotouric

Explore Our Los Angeles

Explore Our Los Angeles

True Crime Tours

The Real Black Dahlia Blood And Dumplings Hotel Horrors and Main Street Vice  

Literary Tours

Birth of Noir: James M. Cain's Los Angeles Literary Tour Thumbnail #1   Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles

California Culture Tours

El Encanto, Monterey Park   California Culture Tour Thumbnail #2   Covina Bowl

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Upcoming Forensic Science Seminars

  • Sunday, November 5th -- From The SLA To DNA
  • Sunday, March 4th -- Wrongful Convictions: Investigatory Case Studies From The California Innocence Project

Upcoming Tours

  • In A Lonely Place: Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles- Saturday October 21st
  • Wilshire Boulevard Death Trip – Saturday, Oct 28th
  • Weird West Adams - Saturday, November 4
  • Eastside Babylon – Saturday, November 11
  • Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles - Saturday, November 18
  • Special Event: In Search of Imperial California - Richard’s 49th Birthday Bus Tour of Orange and Los Angeles Counties - Saturday, November 25
  • Pasadena Confidential - Saturday, December 2
  • Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice - Saturday, December 9
  • The Real Black Dahlia - Saturday, January 6
  • In A Lonely Place: Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles - Saturday, January 13
  • The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain's Southern California Nightmare - Saturday, January 20
  • The Lowdown on Downtown - Saturday January 27
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  • The Real Black Dahlia
  • Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice
  • Pasadena Confidential
  • Weird West Adams
  • Echo Park Book Of The Dead
  • In A Lonely Place: Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles
  • Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s Los Angeles
  • The Lowdown on Downtown