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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Hot Springs, AR
Operating since 1902, this old-school animal attraction includes live alligators and a famously strange preserved 'merman' display. The mix of roadside zoo history and odd taxidermy is pure OddWay.
Little Rock, AR
The Arkansas State Capitol is built on the site of the former state penitentiary and incorporates stone quarried by prison labor. Its grand dome and unusual site history give it more OddWay relevance than a typical capitol.
Bentonville, AR
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson House was dismantled in New Jersey and rebuilt on the Crystal Bridges grounds in Arkansas. It is a rare chance to walk around a relocated Wright Usonian house.
Bauxite, AR
A miner-family monument pays tribute to the workers and families who built Bauxite around the aluminum ore industry. It is a compact roadside marker for one of Arkansas’s strangest company-town histories.
Beaver, AR
The one-lane Beaver Bridge spans the White River on an unusually narrow suspension deck. Nicknamed the Little Golden Gate Bridge, it has become one of the Ozarks’ most recognizable quirky road crossings.
Fifty-Six, AR
The spring that gives the recreation area its name erupts from the base of the karst landscape below the cavern system. Its clear water and dramatic outlet make it a distinct stop from the cave tours above.
Fifty-Six, AR
Blanchard Springs Caverns is a massive living cave system beneath the Ozark National Forest. Guided routes pass towering rooms, flowstone, columns and active underground formations.
Eureka Springs, AR
An intensely blue natural spring emerges from the Ozark landscape at this historic site. The grounds combine geology, Native American history and landscaped trails around the spring basin.
Bull Shoals, AR
Bull Shoals Caverns is a living limestone cave with underground streams, mineral formations and a small waterfall. Guided tours turn the cave into one of northern Arkansas’s classic subterranean stops.
Eureka Springs, AR
A 65-foot concrete statue of Jesus towers above Eureka Springs from Magnetic Mountain. Its stark proportions and isolated hilltop setting make it one of the Ozarks’ most recognizable giant roadside figures.
Berryville, AR
Cosmic Cavern is a privately operated show cave known for underground lakes and elaborate formations. The cave stays unusually warm for the Ozarks and has been open to visitors for decades.
Murfreesboro, AR
Visitors can search a plowed volcanic field for real diamonds and keep what they find. It is one of the only public diamond-bearing sites in the world where found stones belong to the visitor.
Paris, AR
Downtown Paris has its own miniature Eiffel Tower, complete with a public plaza and Arkansas personality. The obvious name-based joke has become the town’s signature photo stop.
Berryville, AR
A supersized homemade Razorback hog stands along the highway near Berryville. Originally built as a parade float, it now serves as a weathered but distinctive Arkansas roadside mascot.
Eureka Springs, AR
This long-running outdoor biblical production occupies a large hillside complex complete with theatrical sets, museums and religious attractions. Its scale and setting make it unusual even outside performance nights.
Little Rock, AR
An ornate Korean gateway and garden honor taekwondo pioneer H.U. Lee in downtown Little Rock. The monumental gate was constructed in Korea and reassembled in Arkansas.
Hot Springs, AR
A tall observation tower rises above Hot Springs National Park and the Ouachita Mountains. The current tower continues a long local tradition of lookout structures on the mountain.
Redfield, AR
This tiny orange-shaped roadside stand has served travelers along U.S. 65 for decades. Its giant citrus form is a surviving example of novelty roadside architecture.
Mammoth Spring, AR
One of the world’s largest springs forms a lake before feeding the Spring River. The park also preserves an old hydroelectric plant and railroad depot around the enormous water source.
Paris, AR
Signal Hill marks Arkansas’s highest natural point, but the summit is surprisingly subtle rather than dramatic. A stone map-shaped marker identifies the high point in the forest.
Fort Smith, AR
A giant Mr. Peanut figure stands outside the local Planters facility, accompanied by smaller versions of the famous mascot. The oversized industrial-brand icon is a classic Arkansas photo stop.
Clinton, AR
A massive natural sandstone bridge spans a wooded hollow north of Clinton. The privately operated attraction has been a roadside Ozarks stop for generations.
Walnut Ridge, AR
A retired Boeing 737 became part of a restaurant complex near Walnut Ridge’s airport, creating one of the state’s more surreal aviation roadside sights. The aircraft itself is the attraction even when the business changes.
Helena-West Helena, AR
This elaborate Queen Anne mansion is one of Helena’s most striking surviving historic homes. Tours reveal ornate woodwork, period rooms and the grandeur of Delta-era wealth.
