Hidden gems · Eureka Springs
Quigley's Castle
The Ozarks' strangest home — stone walls, indoor gardens, and one woman's refusal to build a normal house.
South of Eureka Springs stands the house Elise Quigley built her way in the 1940s: walls studded with stones and fossils she collected, and living trees and tropical plants growing inside the house through open soil borders where floors would normally meet walls.
It's been a family-run roadside wonder for generations — the kind of place that makes you rethink what a house has to be, in a town that's never once been normal.
Know before you go
- Seasonal hours — it closes for winter; check before driving out
- Small admission, cash-friendly, family-run
- Pairs perfectly with a Eureka Springs day trip