A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

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

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

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

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

Explore 4,000 years of European and American art history in the heart of northwest Louisiana.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

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

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

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.

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

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

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

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

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

One of the best-preserved Native American mounds remaining in the southern United States.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

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

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

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

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

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.