Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Basin Park Hotel
An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."
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Eureka Springs, Arkansas
An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."
Alma, Arkansas
Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.
Lead Hill, Arkansas
Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."
Damascus, Arkansas
This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.
Calico Rock, Arkansas
An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.
Marianna, Arkansas
One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.
Fouke, Arkansas
The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.
North Little Rock, Arkansas
The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
Yellville, Arkansas
The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.
Poteau, Oklahoma
Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."
Goodwell, Oklahoma
On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.
Dewey, Oklahoma
This small-town museum is dedicated to the original western movie mega-star.
Barnsdall, Oklahoma
A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.
Goodwell, Oklahoma
At Oklahoma Panhandle State University, a plaque marks a place once known as No Man's Land in the linear world and the fictional Kcymaerxthaere as well.
Norman, Oklahoma
The largest collection of political commercials in the world.
Bixby, Oklahoma
One of New York's most iconic authors is strangely honored by this Oklahoma park.
McAlester, Oklahoma
A small wooden boat once owned by legendary actor Errol Flynn sits inside this Oklahoma gas station.
Noble, Oklahoma
A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.
Chandler, Oklahoma
Located along historic Route 66, this former gas station has been restored and converted into a museum filled with vintage motorcycles.