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The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

An underground river pushes more than 200 million gallons out of this Missouri spring every day.

In the Ozarks, a waterfall shoots out from a glorious hole.

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

This impressive ledge seems to float above the Upper Buffalo Wilderness.

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

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

The highest waterfall between the Rockies and the Appalachian Mountains.

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

Sometimes called the “Little Golden Gate," this bright yellow structure is the last driveable suspension bridge in Arkansas.

A version of this picturesque mill has existed since the 1800s.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

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

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

Some of the oldest exposed rock formations in the United States.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

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