Places embeekrais Wants to Go

A sandstone canyon wilderness with a history of outlaws, mysterious disappearances, and a UFO encounter.

A beautifully restored 19th-century house that’s possibly haunted.

These springs were once the source of a tourism boom to Sulphur Springs.

The finest example of Gothic Queen Anne Architecture in the U.S. was built out of rivalry and spite.

A restored schoolhouse was once a vital part of the Black mill workers community in Arkansas.

One of the oldest show caves in Arkansas.

This sandstone marvel of nature is worth a stop along Highway 65.

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

This impressive ledge seems to float above the Upper Buffalo Wilderness.

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

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

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

In the Ozarks, a waterfall shoots out from a glorious hole.

Yup, that's where the name came from.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

Life-size figures portray depot attendants, train crew, and passengers frozen in time at the oldest railroad station in Arkansas.

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

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

A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

The seventh largest spring in the world.