Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

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

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

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

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

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

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.