DK Travel : Los Angeles : Editor's choice

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Million Dollar Pharmacy

The aisles of this bizarre “pharmacy” are packed with potions and powders said to cure many ills, mostly of the aching heart variety. Wiping your floors with a vile liquid will banish evil spirits, while lighting a strange-smelling candle will bring you good fortune. They also have voodoo dolls, complete with an instruction leaflet, should you feel really wicked.
MOCA Geffen Contemporary

This warehouse-sized former police garage hosts traveling shows and special exhibits (see Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)).
Murals

Numerous murals beautify façades all along the Venice Boardwalk and its side streets. Rip Cronk’s Venice Reconstituted and Homage to a Starry Night are famous.
Muscle Beach Venice

Check out beefy, hunky bodybuilders with abs of steel at this outdoor gym, successor to the Santa Monica original, which shut in 1959.
Museum of Jurassic Technology

The doors of this bizarre museum open up a parallel universe where the seemingly mundane becomes extraordinary. Exhibits include Cameroonian stink ants and American trailer park populations alongside an uncanny likeness of Pope John Paul II in the eye of a needle. Give in to this strange world and prepared to be mesmerized.
Museum of Neon Art (MONA)

The world’s only permanent museum of its kind, MONA attracts visitors to its changing exhibitions of electric and neon art.
Necromance

If the sight of freeze-dried ducklings gives you the creeps, you should probably avoid this “little shop of horrors.” Budding sorcerers and those in search of decorations for their own haunted mansions will find delightfully macabre stuff to buy.
Pershing Square

The city’s oldest public park, redesigned in the early 1990s, it is enlivened with public art and flanked by numerous historic buildings, most notably the grand Biltmore.
Porno Walk of Fame

LA lays claim to the rather dubious title of “World Capital of the Adult Entertainment Industry.” Its biggest legends of lust, including John Holmes and Linda Lovelace, have left their hand-and footprints in the sidewalk outside the former Pussycat movie theater. Renamed the Tomkat Theater, it now shows gay porn.
Rose Bowl

Every New Year’s Day since 1923, the classic stand-off between the leading teams of college football’s Pacific Coast and Big Ten conferences has taken place at this historic landmark stadium. The Bowl has also hosted five professional football Super Bowls, the 1994 World Cup soccer finals, and many other major sporting events. Its giant flea market, held every second Sunday of the month, is legendary.