Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

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

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

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.

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

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

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

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.