A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

Life-size figures portray depot attendants, train crew, and passengers frozen in time at the oldest railroad station in Arkansas.

The seventh largest spring in the world.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

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

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.