Arkansas
Find Arkansas travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
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Featured Attractions
Great Passion Play Theme Park
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
A multi-faceted religious tourist attraction, with museums, Holy Land tours, a Biblical spectacle and a towering statue.
Boggy Creek Monster
Fouke, Arkansas
The legend of the creature, bird crap beard and all, lives on at the Monster Mart.
Dinosaur World
Beaver, Arkansas
A 65-acre park filled with prehistoric creatures and a 4-story tall King Kong statue. Reported closed!
Raven Statue
Ravenden, Arkansas
Burned down twice by vandals, the latest incarnation of the 12-ft. tall black raven statue sez "Nevermore!"
Birthplace of Wal-Mart
Bentonville, Arkansas
A corporate museum at the place where Sam Walton's Wal-Mart began.
Hot Springs
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Home of the Merman, a telepathic raccoon, and a recent US president. Clinton Teen Boy Trail, Bath House Row and spa history.
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Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Alma: Popeye statue | New statue
- Bald Knob: Big Watermelon [tips]
- Bentonville: Birthplace of Wal-Mart
- Berryville: Cosmic Cavern [tips]
- Berryville: Snake World
- Conway: Toad Suck [tips]
- Crossett: Mysterious Crossett Lights [tips]
- Dover: Double-Decker Outhouse, Booger Hollow Trading Post
- Eureka Springs: Christ of the Ozarks
- Eureka Springs: Berlin Wall Slab [tips]
- Eureka Springs: Museum of Earth History
- Fouke: Boggy Creek Monster [tips]
- Gateway: Giant Pink Bunny [tips]
- Gurdon: Mysterious Gurdon Lights [tips]
- Hope: Watermelon Capital
- Hot Springs: Arkansas Alligator Farm, Merman
- Hot Springs: Tourist Mecca
- Hot Springs: Tiny Town [Mecca review]
- Magnolia: World's Largest Charcoal Grill [tips]
- Murfreesboro: Crater of Diamonds [tips]
- North Little Rock: Park Made from Cement [tips]
- Paris: Runestones of Unknown Origin [tips]
- Ravenden: Raven Statue
- Redfield: Orange-shaped Drink Stand [tips]
- Springdale: Home-made Dinosaur [tips]
- Springdale: McDonald's Plane [tips]
- Springdale: Popeye Statue
- Texarkana: Half-n-Half Post Office Photo Op
- Yellville: Turkeys Tossed From A Plane Once a Year
