The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

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

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

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

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

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

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

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

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

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

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

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

Giant papier mache hog sits on private property.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

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.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.