L.A. Times Concierge: My 73-year-old mom is visiting from the East Coast. Where should I take her?

My 73-year-old parent is coming to sojourn from the East Coast. She precocious had hep surgery and it’s achy for her to locomotion excessively far. She likes quirky experiences similar sushi connected conveyor belts. I unrecorded successful Sawtelle. Other times she has travel we person gone to the Getty Villa, a mates workplace tours, unrecorded taping of “Jeopardy!” and a section ramen place. She likes places with a backstory. For illustration successful Boulder, she wanted to thrust past the location wherever JonBenét Ramsey had lived due to the fact that she is obsessed with existent crime. One happening she did accidental she wanted to bash was effort to spot “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” — CJ Schellack

Here’s what we suggest:

First off, your ma sounds similar a bully time. And I hold with her: The champion places to sojourn often person an absorbing backstory. Let’s commencement with the food. Given that your ma likes sushi experiences, marque a halt astatine Yama Sushi Marketplace, conveniently located successful your neighborhood. The family-owned Japanese seafood store sells restaurant-quality sushi astatine takeout prices, writes Tiffany Tse successful our usher to Sawtelle. “Just constituent to what catches your eye, and the unit volition portion it fresh, sashimi-style, close successful beforehand of you,” she adds. Or if you’d similar to cheque retired different revolving sushi spot, cheque retired Kura, which has a Sawtelle location.

To fulfill your mom’s appetite for one-of-a-kind, quirky experiences, caput to Galco’s Soda Pop Stop successful Highland Park. Yes, it’s a spot of a propulsion from your hood — don’t spell during unreserved hr — but it’s worthy the trek, particularly if you person a saccharine tooth. The 100-year-old family-owned store is stacked with aisles of uncommon sodas from astir the globe, nostalgic candies and retro toys that its 82-year-old proprietor John Nese tells maine “you can’t find anyplace else.” In the backmost of the shop, adjacent to the make-your-own-soda station, there’s a deli basal that sells “blockbuster” sandwiches — a sanction that was inspired by boxing fable Rocky Marciano who, aft tasting one, declared “This is simply a existent blockbuster!” (Pro tip: If Nese is determination erstwhile you sojourn — and the likelihood is precocious due to the fact that helium “practically lives there,” helium says — beryllium definite to inquire him for a rec.)

Once you’ve secured your snacks, drawback a picnic broad oregon debased seat and caput implicit to Hollywood Forever Cemetery to ticker a movie — a favourite L.A. acquisition for galore of my colleagues. Through Halloween, Cinespia is hosting movie nights astatine the cemetery wherever stars similar Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney and Johnny Ramone are laid to rest. Films are projected onto a mausoleum partition and moviegoers beryllium connected the tract (an unfastened country with nary graves). There’s a designated wheelchair idiosyncratic and companion country with restrooms adjacent by, and accessible parking is disposable with a placard (though you’ll inactive request to bargain a parking walk successful advance).

But if you deliberation your ma would beryllium much comfy indoors, cheque retired the Quentin Tarantino-owned New Beverly Cinema, known for screening treble features of classic, indie, cult and overseas flicks the old-fashioned mode — connected 35mm film. As Michael Ordoña writes successful our usher to the champion movie theaters successful Los Angeles, “the New Bev is conscionable what a rep cinema should be. It’s cozy, with a mellow, enthusiastic vibe. Surprises sometimes occur.”

To pat into your mom’s interior existent transgression fascination, marque a sojourn to immoderate of L.A.’s darker landmarks. “I similar to instrumentality friends visiting from the East Coast connected a thrust on the Sunset Strip to amusement them wherever celebrated radical died, similar Belushi astatine Chateau Marmont and River Phoenix extracurricular the Viper Room,” elder assemblage exertion Vanessa Franko tells me. (Bonus: You don’t adjacent request to get retired of your car.) But if you similar an existent tour, sojourn the Greystone Mansion and Gardens, wherever lipid heir and homeowner Ned Doheny and his secretary, Hugh Plunkett, were recovered dormant successful 1929. Times question writer Christopher Reynolds recommends it, saying that astatine this destination, you get “a transgression scene, filming determination and L.A. lipid history, each successful one.” We’ve besides curated a database of 12 iconic L.A. movie and TV fearfulness homes that’s worthy checking retired (the filming determination for the WB bid “Charmed” is featured successful the photograph illustration above). I anticipation that you and your precise chill ma person the champion time. Please nonstop america pictures if you deed up immoderate of these spots.