The disappearing bike routes One unsolved mystery, which might keep one's mind busy, has to do with all those "Bike Route" signs spread around the city and which has no regards to their soroundings. While passing these "Bike Route" signs bikers should be careful not to take the signs literally..... Meaning, there aren't really any bike routes over there! So here is a little advice: While,at first, one might feel very much relieved to see these signs (especially after an acrobatic ride between the LA cars and the side walks). it is advisory to carefully get off the bikes and look for the promised bike route, before running into a parking car. The hidden oil wells It is a well known secret there are lots of oil wells around LA. But those that are located in the urban areas are well covered, by fake buildings or fancy looking fences. The yellowish building is in fact an oil well An inside look of the same fake building The lost train tracks Train tracks going nowhere (Culver City) Once upon a time LA people used a network of railroads and electric streetcars as means of travel. then came the times when the trains had to yield and give right of way to crossing traffic! The railroads were paved over during the 50's. They are gone now. They slowly vanished from life in LA as we know it.... But all over the city, there are remainings of those railroads. For some reason pieces of those train tracks were left all over the city and they are definitely going nowhere... Part of the old train tracks (Santa Monica Blvd.) The tracks which can be found around Los Angeles are part of the Balloon Route (established in 1901 by the Pacific Electric Railway) and they go from downtown through Hollywood, Santa Monica, Venice Beach, Redondo Beach and back to LA via Culver City. Culver City Remeber Tara, the house from "Gone with the wind"? Here it is (in Culver City) :