Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

The life of one of America's pre-eminent painters is frozen in time in the home where he lived, worked, and died.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

A historic, scenic mill that was forced to close due to overlogging.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

Mobsters came for a soak in the hot springs, and stayed for the illegal gambling and bootlegging.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.