Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

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

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

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

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

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

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

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

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

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

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

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.