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Eureka Springs, Arkansas

An 1886 hilltop hotel with a notorious former clinic and nightly ghost stories.

Murfreesboro, Arkansas

Visitors dig through a volcanic field and may keep every diamond they discover.

Rogers, Arkansas

The remains of a failed Ozark resort emerge from Beaver Lake when the water level falls.

Hot Springs, Arkansas

One of Arkansas's oldest attractions mixes live alligators, a petting zoo, a merman, and Babe Ruth lore.

North Little Rock, Arkansas

This picturesque old gristmill is actually a 1930s recreation filled with concrete disguised as wood and stone.

Hot Springs, Arkansas

A 216-foot steel tower continues a mountaintop lookout tradition repeatedly ended by fire and demolition.

Bella Vista, Arkansas

A delicate steel-and-glass chapel rises from the woods like an elaborate Gothic cage.

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

A woodland chapel made from 425 windows seems to disappear into the surrounding Ozark forest.

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas

Nine million gallons of water surge from an underground system every hour to form the Spring River.

Beaver, Arkansas

A giant King Kong and decaying dinosaurs survive from a closed Ozark theme park once billed as the world's largest.