ODDITIES and CURIOSITIES EXPO 2025 - Los Angeles - An Expo of the Weird, Unusual, Dark & Macabre

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✨🖤 Step into the strange, unusual, and bizarre with me as we kick off the 2025 season of the Oddities & Curiosities Expo in Los Angeles! 🖤✨
🎨 This one-of-a-kind event gathers artists, vendors, and fans of the macabre, creepy, and utterly unique-all under one roof to celebrate everything odd. 🦴
We'll explore stunning art pieces crafted from real animal remains 💀, marvel at incredible feats of strength and talent at an authentic circus sideshow🎪, admire artwork 🎨that explores every dark and twisted side of the imagination, and dive deep into the fascinating "rabbit hole" of the Oddities and Curiosities Expo. 🖤 🐇
I will also give you all my best tips to ensure you have a great time at an Oddities and Curiosities Expo near you!
If you enjoyed this video, don’t forget to hit LIKE and consider SUBSCRIBING to my channel. Your support means the world to me!
CHAPTERS
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0:00 INTRO
1:53 Official Expo Merchandise
2:50 Expo Floor - Part 1
10:35 Side Show Performances
11:45 Vendors - Part 2
20:50 Taxidermy & Entomology Classes
22:30 Vendors - Part 3
29:49 Food & Drink Tips
30:45 Vendors - Part 4
33:08 Tips & Trick
37:08 Outro
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[@bloodnfirewithin]

awesome video! really like that you put the vendors social media info alot of other streamers never put the vendor info or show who they are especially seeing its something i would want.

[@BigRedJourneys]

Thank you and appreciate the comment! I always love when I can to put a persons social media or website because I know these are small business owners with great products that someone watching my video may want to buy and I want to do what I can (even if it’s little) to support their business and grow it.

[@mainecoonmomma9494]

Great video. My husband and I are going to the Boston venue and are planning on doing the taxidermy class making jackalopes. I can’t wait. It will be our first year going.

[@BigRedJourneys]

Thank you for the compliment! You both will have a great time! I have heard nothing but great things so far from the taxidermy class and it does seem so much fun. I want to do it myself one day if i ever get a chance. If you get the chance to go both days at the expo in Boston i would recommend you do, because I know the taxidermy class takes up the majority of one day so you wont have much time to walk around and check out the expo. But have fun and let me know how it was!

[@Eco_Grl]

Great video! Love your narration and filming ❤❤❤

[@BigRedJourneys]

Thank you very much! I am glad you enjoyed it!

[@ChannelfortheRecentlyDeceased]

Thanks for the shout out!

[@BigRedJourneys]

Absolutely! Anytime! Just don’t expect me to say your name 3 times though!

[@LandOfSteelFishing]

Thanks for sharing this with the community and adding in the vendors names. Time to try to up my collection

[@BigRedJourneys]

@@LandOfSteelFishing you’re very welcome and thank you for watching! I’m always happy to add the vendors names when I can because I know they’re all small business owners with great products and I want to try to help them connect their products with people who may not get a chance to see/shop them if it wasn’t for my video. And yes…time to get some new items for your collection!

[@Duumipeikko]

Poor animals 😢😢😢😢

[@BigRedJourneys]

It’s unfortunate and I am one who doesn’t want to see any animal die unless it’s natural and/or for quality of life. But the animals here were either old taxidermied items, historical pieces, road kill, or died naturally. They don’t kill the animal’s just to make their pieces.

[@sheldonmurphy6031]

I have never heard of this before. Thanks for sharing this! This place is definitely for the rich hot topics goth people. However this would still be really cool to see in person! 👏👏👏

[@BigRedJourneys]

You’re welcome and I’m glad you enjoyed the video. I would have to disagree that the expo is not just for the rich. Yes there are quite a few vendors that charge a pretty penny for the or items but it’s usually due to the rarity of the item, the amount of hours and labor it took to create, even just the cost of materials alone. There are a lot of vendors who have very low cost items from magnets and stickers to art prints and food items. This expo truly does have something for everyone as long as you can appreciate the odd and the bizarre anyone can enjoy this expo

[@sheldonmurphy6031]

@BigRedJourneys OMGOSH I couldn't imagine the hours they put in to master their art! I want to clarify something. When I said rich hot topics, I didn't mean cheap products. Maybe that was not the right word, BUT Hot Topics had some really cool things, but they were always expensive. After I finished your video, I just kept watching more of other people's videos, and I took notice of their being something for everyone! I can't remember if they were in your video, but I saw the weird taxidermy rabbits and the ducks. Those were freaking cool. The large taxidermy animals with the insides turned into strange scenes, blew me away. Every one of those people, including those who sell patches, deserve every bit they ask for! I would never devalue that. Oh shoot, the Toad Bags were freaking awesome! I would buy one for my sister for Christmas if I could. Rich people expo? Sure. lol But it's something everyone could enjoy. It would be cool to take 3rd graders on a field trip to see everything! lol lol I would had loved it. lol You video really is one of the more enjoyable ones I watched Sir! 😊 Thank You Again Sir! 😁

[@BigRedJourneys]

@@sheldonmurphy6031 Thank you very much! I appreciate all the thoughts and comments and appreciate you watching~!

[@maggiewhite971]

Great video!

[@BigRedJourneys]

Thank you very much! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Will you be attending an expo this year?

[@alexasummersill164]

Which vendor sold those wide brim hats 14:04

[@BigRedJourneys]

It was The Collective Coven thecollectivecoven.com/

[@Eco_Grl]

At 22:04 in the back corner with the guy filming that’s ghoul host❤!!! She did a video on this expo and her experience taxidermy

[@BigRedJourneys]

Oh that’s good to know. I’ll have to look her video up and watch

[@MFBURNS7909]

Cool video. New sub 🤜 quit putting the soap against your nose unless you're going to buy it. You can bend over and smell it. I really need to stop leaving comments before I finish the video 😂 RIP to all the animals and insects 🙏

[@BigRedJourneys]

Thank you for the sub! Appreciate you joining me on this journey

[@EpiCTriPpiNDeAdaHeAd]

rad!

[@BigRedJourneys]

It’s a very cool expo! If you ever get a chance to go you should.

[@juanserrano5629]

Have you ever heard of the Gamble House and the Rose Bowl both of them in Pasadena are you interested in doing those videos in the future🤔👍📲

[@BigRedJourneys]

Yes I have heard of them. The Gamble house was Doc Browns house in Back to the Future. I will keep those in mind

[@gamingwithgabe2812]

I bet it was crazy at the expo.

[@BigRedJourneys]

It’s a crazy yet odd expo for sure! Lots of fun!

[@angelafields3740]

i hate people take the life of a animal for sport...they say human, but they lie, how would they get proof!

[@BigRedJourneys]

I agree in that I myself do not want to buy something that has been hunted nor would I ever do it myself. But part of the admittance to join the expo is the vendors must submit that their items are humanely acquired meaning they do not go out and purposely kill these animals from sport. Some taxidermy items are clearly old hunting trophies but those are from years gone.

[@quasi76]

HENLO from Miami, fl. I love watching all your videos and would enjoy watching more videos from aquariums and zoos, maybe some flea markets or farmers markets. Keep up the great videos and laughs

[@BigRedJourneys]

Hello to you! Thank you for watching my videos and thank you for the input! This year I already have planned to visit a few more zoos and aquariums, mainly in the southwest area of California but I’ll have some exciting videos coming up this year!