Bentonville, Fayetteville & Eureka Springs

Arkansas's largest state park, about 12,000 acres on Beaver Lake, with the Van Winkle mill site, a graveyard of enslaved people, 54 miles of trail and regulated hunting.

A Civilian Conservation Corps park begun in October 1933 in the Lee Creek valley, with log-and-stone cabins, a 1937 stone dam, about sixty crevice caves and a 15-mile trail.

A 54-degree spring that runs underground into War Eagle Cave and out to War Eagle Creek, on land Roscoe Hobbs gave the state in 1962, with float trips and an oak-hickory forest.

An 1879 Ozark spring town on a bluff, with 230 streets and none at right angles, Basin Spring Park, the 1886 Crescent Hotel and a National Register district since 1970.

Where Union troops held the March 1862 Civil War battle that kept Missouri in the Union, with Elkhorn Tavern, a Cherokee Trail of Tears road and a signed tour route.

The December 7, 1862 battlefield where about 2,700 fell and Hindman withdrew in the night, with the Borden orchard, Hindman Hall's free museum, and walking and driving tours.

Eight blocks of Main Street on the Arkansas River, from Phillips Landing, with 1889 banks, a beer depot and a railroad depot, on the National Register since 1976.

A 2011 Moshe Safdie building on 120 acres of Ozark forest in Bentonville, with free admission, six trails, two ponds, a spring, an arboretum and a relocated Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Sam Walton's 1950 variety store on the Bentonville square, now a free museum with his 1979 pickup, a recreated office, the 1945 Newport store door and a 1950s-style soda counter.

E. Fay Jones's 1980 glass-and-timber chapel in the Eureka Springs woods, 48 feet high with 425 windows, ranked by the AIA among the best American buildings of its century.