Places arod8205 Wants to Go

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

A peaceful place in the woods where everything is a work in progress.

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

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

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.