Unusual museums in Los Angeles
Looking for unusual museums & collections in Los Angeles? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Heritage Square Museum, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Museum of Neon Art and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Los Angeles they'd never find on their own.
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Heritage Square Museum
Eight ornate Victorian-era buildings, including a Queen Anne mansion, an 1897 church, an old rail depot, and…
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Center for Land Use Interpretation
A tiny, deadpan exhibition space run by a research organization devoted to how American land gets used, perce…
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Museum of Neon Art
The only museum in the world dedicated solely to neon, electric, and kinetic light art, rescuing the glowing…
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Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village
Starting in 1956, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey hand-built sixteen structures from bottles, mortar, and discards…
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Salvation Mountain
For nearly three decades Leonard Knight built this 50-foot painted hill out of adobe, hay bales, and an estim…