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

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

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.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

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

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

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

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

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

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

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

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

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

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

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.