A similar tourist attraction is Spook Hill in Lake Wales Florida. Our Daughter and her Family experienced Spook Hill a couple years ago.
Hello, This intersection leads West to some of the most iconic places in Los Angeles. The County Museum of Art, the La Brea Tar Pits and the Peppermint swirl building of the Petersen Museum. But, long before the Petersen Museum came to be, the field trips from college art classes visited the County Museum of Art and grounds. Then we go back 10 years and our dad took us to this area to see (and smell) the La Brea Tar Pits. To us, as young as we were, it was a small pond that looked like several we saw in Signal Hill, near our house. It smelled like the same oil pond, a larger, black, gooey pond. Now, my wife and I went all over the Wilshire District in Los Angeles during the mid 60s and into the 70s. It was a jumping place with all sorts of cool little shops that catered to young folks. Record shops with great prices and lots of up to the minute LP albums, etc. We too, went to the La Brea Tar Pits and the nearby George C. Page Museum. Jnaki Those were some great times, but progress, if you want to call it that, changed the whole area and now, it is still tearing down old buildings and building modern buildings to go with the whole district. Then there is the out of place, awful candy cane museum. Today, Wilshire and La Brea it is quite busy, any time of the day and Wilshire Boulevard draws a lot of touring visitors to the area... Then, there is the out of the melding of the old buildings with some gargantuan peppermint candy blob attracting more visitors and not in the mode of old building neighborhood preservation, but some other preservation situation... YRMV
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