Among the charred remains of luxurious million-dollar mansions along the iconic Pacific Coast Highway ... the wreckage, images show. The vast majority of structures along Malibu’s Big Rock ...

Driving down Pacific Coast Highway from northern Malibu on Sunday evening, all you see for miles down the coast is pale blue sky and deep blue ocean reflecting off the cliffside red rocks.

But much of the eastern end of Malibu now lies in ruins due to the Palisades Fire, with many of its eye-catching beachfront homes and swanky restaurants now in ruins. Celebrity haunt Moonshadows ...

The Palisades Fire destroyed thousands of structures ... the coast, Pondella added. These kelp forests are like three-dimensional coral reefs that tower nearly 200 feet above the ocean floor.

On a half-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway that hugs the Malibu coastline, some 70 luxury homes once stood shoulder to shoulder on the sand, with uninterrupted views of the ocean.