Places misailr Wants to Go

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

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

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

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

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

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

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

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

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.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

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

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.