Places joparkman Wants to Go

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

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

The seventh largest spring in the world.

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

The largest spring in Northwest Arkansas is also home to a sprawling botanical gardens and a historically significant bluff.

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

One of the largest publicly funded mural in the country is one city's love letter to itself.

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.