Places mizmandi84 Wants to Go

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

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

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

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.

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

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

This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.

This 40-foot fowl marks the so-called "wild goose capital of the world."

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.