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Guarded by attack dog
Permanently Closed

Peach Springs, Arizona

Grand Canyon Caverns Underground Suite

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Pumpkin Spring Pool

Littlefield, Arizona

Pumpkin Spring Pool

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Eliphante
Permanently Closed

Cornville, Arizona

Eliphante

Outsider Art Community.

Meteor Crater

Winslow, Arizona

Meteor Crater

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The "meteor" stone on display.

Pocahontas, Arkansas

Pocahontas 'Meteorite'

Despite what scientists think, the town still says this is an extraterrestrial rock.

Chaffee Barbershop Museum. (Creative Commons)

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Chaffee Barbershop Museum

Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.

The house.

Murfreesboro, Arkansas

Mauney House and Mine

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

The Hoo-Hoo International Office and Museum

Gurdon, Arkansas

Hoo-Hoo International Office and Museum

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

Pezhephen's True Home
Permanently Closed

Formosa, Arkansas

'Pezhephen's True Home'

At a site that has witnessed many significant events, according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, it is best known as the place of lunar discovery.

Inside the Northern Ohio School

Earle, Arkansas

Northern Ohio School

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

The final resting place of Rhea and his horse

Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

Grave of a Man and his Horse Killed by a Train

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

Inside Mammoth Spring Frisco Depot

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas

Mammoth Spring Frisco Depot

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

H.U. Lee International Gate

Little Rock, Arkansas

H.U. Lee International Gate and Garden

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

The gates of the former Bassett POW Camp.

Joiner, Arkansas

Bassett POW Camp

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

Collins Creek Cascade in Spring

Heber Springs, Arkansas

Collins Creek Cascade and Trout Stream

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

Little Rock's legendary White Water Tavern.

Little Rock, Arkansas

White Water Tavern

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

Beatles Park

Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

Beatles Park

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

The tree surgeon buried in a tree. (Atlas Obscura)

Carthage, Arkansas

Tree Surgeon Buried in a Tree

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

The Arlington Hotel

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The Arlington Hotel

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

The tri-point from the Arkansas side

South West City, Missouri

AR-MO-OK Tri-State Marker

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

Where the settlement once stood

Earle, Arkansas

Parkin Archeological State Park

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

Toad Suck, Arkansas. (Random Factor/Flickr)

Bigelow, Arkansas

Toad Suck

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

I Yam What I Yam

Alma, Arkansas

Popeye Statue

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

Johnny Cash's Boyhood Home

Dyess, Arkansas

Historic Dyess Colony: Boyhood Home of Johnny Cash

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

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