The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

A peaceful place in the woods where everything is a work in progress.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

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

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

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

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

At a site that has witnessed many significant events, according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, it is best known as the place of lunar discovery.

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

This small-town museum is dedicated to the original western movie mega-star.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

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

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.