Places deens7 Wants to Go

Check out the 125-pound chocolate reindeer in the back of this candy shop.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

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

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

Crystal hunters can dig for their own stones at this DIY mine in Arkansas’ quartz belt.

Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

This mill has survived a tumultuous past to still produce flour and cornmeal.

This mountaintop refuge rehabilitates tigers, lions, bears, and more from illicit wildlife trade—and offers overnight lodging.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

From a canyon-like gorge, more than 20 million gallons of water emerge every day, while a smaller spring drips down, creating the illusion of an endless, gentle waterfall.

The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.

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

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

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

Away from the crowds of fishing enthusiasts, take a hike deep into the woods and journey into an eerie darkness.