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Chinatown

"Forget it, Jake.  It's Chinatown."

Velveteria

It is hard to say with absolute certainty which of the hundreds of paintings at Velveteria, Los Angeles' velvet painting museum, are the most strangely sublime.  It's not your average loaded-with-artspeak, whisper-in-the galleries kind of museum. Tucked into an old storefront on New High Street in Chinatown, this 1 1/2-year old repository of folk art weirdness is the brainchild of Los Angeles native Carl Baldwin and his partner, Caren Anderson — a paean to an art form that Baldwin says "just doesn't get any respect."

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Circle X Ranch Grotto Trail