We watched it all burned down and did nothing.

That's singer-songwriter Angel Olson, performing last year at Theatricum Botanicum,

a theater in the heart of a canyon shaded by trees and lit by the stars.

It's a beautiful, beautiful canyon,

filled with California live oaks.

So it makes a very special place.

It's in between the valley and the sea.

And when you leave the chaos of the city,

and you turn the corner and come up the winding road,

you come to a place that says,

Will Gere Theatricam Botanacum.

Last year, Atlas Obsgira partnered with Angel Olson to put on that concert.

And we did it at Theatricum Botanicum, because that theater is everything that Atlas Obscira loves.

It's this hidden, surprising place with this hidden surprising story.

It's not just some theater or a beautiful little hideout.

It's a piece of American history.

It's a refuge for persecuted artists and was a home for those that Hollywood kicked out.

I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas Obscira, a celebration of the world's strange,

incredible, and wondrous places. Today, we're visiting Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, just outside of Los Angeles.

It's a place where art, nature, and history all meet beneath the wide California sky.

More. After this.

I want to go. After this. They say, oh, it's just like being. They say, oh, it's just like being in a piece of

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