Los Angeles plays host to many amazing museums, but this very special one is a cut above most, spotlighting spectacular ...

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were ...

The La Brea Tar Pits – home to more than 3.5 million Ice Age fossils – is one of the planet’s best-kept records of what it was like in the area we now know as Southern California over the last 60,000 ...

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Though it might be one of the more historically iconic L.A. tourist destinations–on par with Randy’s Donuts, Norm’s Coffee, and the Hollywood sign–the La Brea Tar Pits is also potentially one of the ...