Today I went to the La Brea Tar Pits as part of my drive up the coast. The whole thing was a bit smaller than expected. There are a few tar pits outside you can see and then a museum showing some of the fossils from the tar pits. Seeing all the fossils was interesting (mostly mammoths and saber tooth tigers - at least those are the cools ones I remembered) and I felt like the tar pits were a SoCal check list item (of course surfing would have been a better one, but oh well).
I think it is funny (and appropriate) that 40,000 years ago a big plot of asphalt naturally formed in what would later be the center of LA! (Take that Jeff Foxworthy with your: Gee I wouldn't have thought the animals would come this close to the city.)
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