Although he donated over 3,000 acres to Los Angles, Griffith's life was marred by controversy.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Established in 1925, Kiddie Park claims to be the oldest amusement park in the U.S. - a cozy little time warp nestled in a shady corner of the modern world.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

A land of debatable treasure.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

This monument commemorates the only American soldiers to have directly fought Russians during World War I.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The remains of a failed canal can be found in several towns near Lake St. Clair and is known historically as "Mason's Folly."

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.