THE LOCAL GUIDE FOR DEEP INTERESTS
Choose Your Next Sidequest
Sidequests is a Los Angeles field guide for people who want more than a pin and a star rating. It is built around what you will actually notice, learn, play, tour, research, or photograph when you arrive.
Original Obsession Context
Every listing explains the machinery, story, artifact, collection, or idea that makes the stop worth your attention.
Visitability First
Open, lawful experiences remain destination recommendations. Context-only homes and vanished sites are visibly labeled, privacy-safe, and never offered as routes.
Unknown Means Unknown
Missing accessibility or policy details are shown as unknown. They are never silently converted into “no.”
Evidence You Can Inspect
Claims, visitor details, and images carry provenance, check dates, and an editorial confidence state.
HOME OF BIG IDEAS
Ideas Have Addresses. Privacy Has Boundaries.
An editorial collection connects 46 homes, vanished sites, salons, and idea hubs to the writers, scientists, collaborators, mentors, and guests who made them matter. It appears within All Obsessions and has its own exact obsession filter. Private markers identify only a broad area—or are withheld entirely. The app never offers directions to private, approximate, demolished, or fire-recovery records.
LOCATION PRIVACY
Your Exact Position Is Ephemeral
Sidequests asks for foreground location only after you press “Use my location.” The exact result is used in memory to rank nearby places and is never put into URLs, analytics, logs, submissions, or saved account records. Manual city and ZIP discovery remains available when permission is denied. A city or ZIP query is sent to our configured search service only after you submit it.
MAPS AND DIRECTIONS
OpenStreetMap, Rendered With MapLibre
The map uses OpenStreetMap data, OpenMapTiles, and maps hosted by OpenFreeMap, displayed with MapLibre. Sidequests does not download offline map tiles or send search requests while you type.
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EARLY ACCESS STATUS
72 Showcase Locations, Plus Home of Big Ideas
This early access release includes 72 researched Los Angeles County destinations and 46 context-only Home of Big Ideas records. Hours, accessibility details, imagery, and booking information are still being completed; missing information is labeled unknown. Check the official source and review dates before visiting. We are working toward a larger, fully reviewed catalog.
Favorites and visited status are saved on this device. Accounts, cloud synchronization, and community submissions are coming later.