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

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

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

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

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

This curious headstone is labeled simply as "The Queen."

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

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

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

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.