Places samfsm Wants to Go

A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

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

The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.

These waterfalls can be twins or triplets, depending on how much it's rained recently.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

Alabama’s oldest and largest metaphysical shop.

In 1703, French settlers in what is now Mobile celebrated the first Mardi Gras celebration in the United States.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

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.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

After being abandoned for decades, Oklahoma’s first air-conditioned theatre was reborn in the new century.

A crew of die-hard train buffs spent decades turning a defunct stretch of railway in Oklahoma City into a museum now home to over 50 antique and restored trains.

A likeness of Da Vinci's mysterious painting smiles at passersby from the side of a barn.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.