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Check It Out! We're visiting The Gangster Museum of America in historic Downtown Hot Springs! Discover over 100 years of history when Hot Springs was a hotbed of gambling & became a favorite hangout of some of the most notorious gangsters. Learn why it's considered the 'Birthplace of Spring Trai...

Take a step back in time at the Fordyce Bathhouse Museum in this episode of 'Check It Out!' Located on Historic Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park. The Fordyce Bathhouse was originally opened in 1915 as the largest and most opulent Bathhouse option of its day! A visit to the museum as it is ...

We're Checkin' Inn to The Ohio Club Loft! Located above the historic Ohio Club in the heart of Downtown Hot Springs. This beautiful vacation rental is located in what was once the casino room of the old saloon and gambling hall and is filled with antiques including original gambling items from the O...

Some legends are created over time, some are made by pure acts of greatness, but sometimes legends are forged in fire. We're heading over to the World Famous McClard's Bar-B-Q! This place is truly legendary. Phillip McClard reminisces about how this piled-high dish came to be a sought after restaur...

Check It Out! We're visiting The Gangster Museum of America in historic Downtown Hot Springs! Discover over 100 years of history when Hot Springs was a hotbed of gambling & became a favorite hangout of some of the most notorious gangsters. Learn why it's considered the 'Birthplace of Spring Trai...

Hot Springs is known for having some of the most fun and quirkiest events around! We have just about every event you could imagine - a bath tub race, one very short parade, a comic & pop culture convention, the Arkansas Derby - the list goes on and on. We've narrowed down the top 10 events in ...

In this edition of Feast Mode, we’re visiting Arkansas’ oldest bar! For over 100 years the Ohio Club has seen its fair share of gangsters, baseball players and celebrities. It’s been a speakeasy, a cigar shop, a casino and a music venue. What else can this legendary spot offer? Chef Michael Da...

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” -- T. S. Eliot  An adventure and a family field trip all wrapped up in one town; is it possible? We are going to go on a quest to clue you in o...

Explore Arkansas’ own sin city with a self-guided tour inspired by a newly-released book that digs deep into Hot Springs’ sordid past: The Vapors - A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice by Hot Springs native David Hill....

We're Checkin' Inn to Capone's Loft, one of the hottest place to stay in Historic Downtown Hot Springs!...