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Nothing beats an in-season fried green tomato BLT.

Vicksburg, Mississippi

The Tomato Place

Pull off Highway 61 in high summer for fried green tomato BLTs, turkey legs, and boiled peanuts.

Much of the area has been impacted by agriculture and levee construction.  But the low lying location still holds water.

Delta, Louisiana

Grant's Canal

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

Daisy Airgun Museum

Rogers, Arkansas

Daisy Airgun Museum

Learn all about this iconic air rifle without putting an eye out.

Prairie Grove Phone Booth

Prairie Grove, Arkansas

Airlight Outdoor Telephone Booth

A mid-century telephone booth still stands, now a long-distance relic of the past.

Ace of Clubs House

Texarkana, Texas

Ace of Clubs House

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Markings on the Heavener Runestone.

Heavener, Oklahoma

Heavener Runestone

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

The Awakening by Lorri Acott, one of the nearly 100 pieces on display.

Little Rock, Arkansas

Vogel Schwartz Sculpture Garden

Art blooms at this unique outdoor gallery along the banks of the Arkansas River.

The "Little Rock"

Little Rock, Arkansas

The "Little Rock"

Yup, that's where the name came from.

The Highest Point in Arkansas

Paris, Arkansas

Magazine Mountain

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

Cavanal Hill

Poteau, Oklahoma

Cavanal Hill

Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."

The Crystal Shrine Grotto

Memphis, Tennessee

The Crystal Shrine Grotto

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Memphis Pyramid

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis Pyramid

The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.

The National Civil Rights Museum

Memphis, Tennessee

National Civil Rights Museum

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Entrance on Union Ave, just around the corner from Beale Street

Memphis, Tennessee

Sun Studio

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Johnny Cash's Boyhood Home

Dyess, Arkansas

Historic Dyess Colony: Boyhood Home of Johnny Cash

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

World's Largest Slinky.

Oaks, Pennsylvania

World's Largest Slinky

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

American Treasure Tour

Norristown, Pennsylvania

American Treasure Tour

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

Conewago Potholes

Bainbridge, Pennsylvania

Conewago Potholes

These unique rock formations were created during the Ice Age.

Woodland Chapel at Woodsgate

Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Woodland Chapel at Woodsgate

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

Liberty Bell Shrine, with a replica of the Liberty Bell, in the basement of Zion's Memorial Church, 1962
Permanently Closed

Allentown, Pennsylvania

The Liberty Bell Hiding Place

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

Ahlgrim Acres

Palatine, Illinois

Ahlgrim Acres

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

American Gothic House.

Eldon, Iowa

American Gothic House

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

Street view.

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Golden Spike Monument

This massive railroad spike celebrates the 1939 premiere of the movie “Union Pacific.”

Pottawattamie Squirrel Cage Jail

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Pottawattamie Squirrel Cage Jail

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

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