Little Rock

You can actually visit the little rock for which the city was named. The first outcropping of rock along the Arkansas River above its mouth was known to pioneers and early explorers as “La Petite Roche” to distinguish it from a bigger rock upstream. The city grew to become Arkansas’ capital, where William J. Clinton served as governor for 11 years before being elected president. The Arkansas Governor’s Mansion, where he lived with wife Hilary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea (born during his first term), holds another claim to fame: It served as the exterior of the home owned by Suzanne Sugarbaker (played by Delta Burke) in the CBS TV series Designing Women.