Of course Exposition Park has the Natural History Museum, USC has Mudd Hall and Bovard, University Park has all its domes. But those are old jewels.

Two local buildings were mentioned as honorable mentions for best buildings in LA for the last decade.

The 2008 Exposition Park-Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Library by Tetra Design, a result of the Prop DD, Library Construction Bond. Thank you voters!

The 1998 bond, combined with with an earlier bond, paid for the largest library infrastructure improvement project in the nation - more than 20 libraries either built or restored, according to CurbedLA.

The other is more of a tongue in cheek mention – Gas Station of the Future to Distract You From Thinking About Dying Polar Bears – but United Oil at the corner of La Brea and Slauson deserves mentions nonetheless.

It has the CHEAPEST GAS in the city and an amazingly designed car wash that involved a bridge over the convenience store. It took two extra years to build.

CurrbedLA says it "looks straight out of the Jetsons with its long, swooping canopy."