Ok here's an "Only in Arkansas" that I like, we found this place on the internet on some underground ozark site, this place looked pretty cool so me and a friend headed out to shoot some pics and check it out. It turns out it's an aboandoned million-dollar resort of a presidential candidate from the early 1900's, located as Monte Ne. We were told Beaver lake was up now by the californian at the gas station, as she was pointed out by the Arkansasan fellow at the table, who then showed us a B/W pic from the 70's of it. There he said, there under the water lies an ampitheater that was built alongside the Inn it's prettty cool too.

The place was a 3-story concrete structure that had seen its fair share of weathering that's for sure. Solid concrete, you could see where it had been chipped and some fallen from other floors, the weird thing was there were no stairs to the second or third floors (I told Bob we needed a rope.) Getting to the second floor was no problem but we couldn't go up anymore from there.

The place was cool every inch of the walls was coved with graffiti, messages, fairy tales, and some humorous vulgarities. One common message that seems to always exist on the these type of walls, which tells the times, is that of love, peace, war, and hate and could definately befound in the messages and scribbles, many biblical and racial slurs were even present, the devil himself was referenced a few times. Every person and their momma told there significant other how they felt wether it was of happiness or of I even saw damnnation to one lady.

There were 6 fireplaces that we saw and there was still the third floor left unseen, it seems one person belives that this is where your suppose to put the "bodies???" Not sure on that one but it added to the ambiance of the room.  I didn't see any tresspassing signs and the people at the gas station acted like they tell people where it is all the time, so it seemed a pretty safe place. It sits right on the lake, maybe a stones throw away, and would be a perfect backdrop for a sunset or sunrise pic giving strk contrast to the writings on the wall...

Here is a link to Bob's Gallery of photo's that he took: http://bobshull.com/monte_ne/default.aspx