You need to check out this excellent VBS.tv video piece about the oil rigs of Los Angeles. Like domesticated animals, they are quiet and friendly. While you visit cupcake stands and Korean taco vendors, they pump oil from under your feet. Infrastructure rarely goes away, it just gets built on or over.

It reminds me of wandering around Barcelona during college and stumbling upon an old Roman column in the courtyard of an office building. We don’t have anything like that in the states, I thought to myself.

But we do — it just looks like this.

Via @agreenberg