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

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.