This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

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

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

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

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

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

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

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.