NOLA Drive

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

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.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Lined with plaques and tributes to veterans, this patriotic street was founded by Mexican immigrants.