Murfreesboro, Arkansas
Crater of Diamonds State Park
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
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Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Lead Hill, Arkansas
Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.
Yellville, Arkansas
The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.
Gurdon, Arkansas
A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.
Montgomery, Alabama
The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.
Eufaula, Alabama
That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.
Huntsville, Alabama
It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.
Orrville, Alabama
This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.
Anniston, Alabama
A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.
Foley, Alabama
Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.
Montgomery, Alabama
Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.
Huntsville, Alabama
Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.
Delta, Alabama
The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.
Tuscumbia, Alabama
You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.
Haleyville, Alabama
148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.
Fackler, Alabama
This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.