Places amtneer Wants to Go

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

The man who wasn't there.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

"They died with their boots on."

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.