Downtown Los Angeles has a pretty famous park and museum with fossils of preserved megafauna that have been extinct for millennia still regularly found just chilling in a bubbling lake of oil. I even worked there 25 years ago.
There is also a district of the city that contains NIMBYs and other fossils, by a similar name.
(La Brea means "the tar").
A bit west of downtown, too, but I'm an annoying pedant.
Sounds kinda like a Mario 64 stage.