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The First-Timer · Ava · Los Angeles

La Brea Tar Pits

Miracle Mile · quick · Free

I walk past this on the way to LACMA and stop every time. A bubbling tar pit in a city of ten million people is just inherently surreal.

Active Ice Age fossil excavations in the middle of Wilshire Boulevard. The grounds are free. The tar genuinely bubbles.

— Ava, The First-Timer
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