Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near California

While in California, you might enjoy a visit to:

Artist Chris Burden created this night-lit installation of 200 old cast-iron lampposts from the 1920s and '30s.
~24 miles from Newhall.

"Death Trap of the Ages." Prehistoric animals, trapped in tar that bubbles out of the ground in the heart of the city, just east of Beverly Hills. Pit 91 has a viewing platform with doomed fiberglass beasts.
~24 miles from Newhall.

War dead statue is replicated and gold-coated at a mall.
~23 miles from Newhall.

Another impressively huge doughnut on a building (there are two in Gardena).
~36 miles from Newhall.

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