Paris, Arkansas
Magazine Mountain
A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.
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Paris, Arkansas
A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.
Mount Ida, Arkansas
You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.
Karnack, Texas
Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.
Fouke, Arkansas
The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.
South West City, Missouri
Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.
Prairie Grove, Arkansas
A mid-century telephone booth still stands, now a long-distance relic of the past.
Jefferson, Texas
This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.
Kilgore, Texas
At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.
Turkey, Texas
A small museum dedicated to the king of Western swing.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Alma, Arkansas
Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.
Caldwell, Kansas
A series of silhouettes that recall the great cattle drives of the 19th-century.
Wheeler, Texas
A local museum honors Wheeler native Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
The first commercial phone line west of St. Louis was installed thanks to a group of Cherokee businessmen.
Spiro, Oklahoma
Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.
Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Site of the 1926 murder trial of Ernest Burkhart who was involved in the "Reign of Terror."
Jet, Oklahoma
This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.
Shamrock, Texas
Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.
West, Texas
Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.
Lindale, Texas
Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.
Ponca City, Oklahoma
This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.
Ponca City, Oklahoma
A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.