Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits

Visitors can see real fossil skeletons of saber-toothed cats at the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits.

Named after the philanthropist who financed the museum's construction, the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries is undoubtedly one of the world's most famous fossil sites.

With more than 1 million bones in-house, the research and educational facility is located in the heart of museum row. But don't go to the museum hoping to learn about dinosaurs. The ice age fossils and skeletons excavated from the tar pits are between 10,000 and 40,000 years old. You're more likely to see skeletons of saber-toothed cats, mammoths and birds.

Appealing mostly to children, a class trip can be found in the museum almost every morning. On any given day, many children can be seen playing on the museum's front lawn or listening to the guided tour inside.

While inside, check out the skeleton of a 9,000-year-old woman. Her remains were found in 1914 and are the only human bones ever to be discovered in the pits.

Explore outside the museum at the Rancho La Brea tar pits. You'll see replicas of animals throughout the park and among the pits of black sludge that were first discovered in 1769.