7M views · 48K reactions | There is a state park in Arkansas where for a $10 admission fee, you can try and dig up your own diamonds. More than 182,000 people visited last year alone, unearthing a total of 445 diamonds. “Our families and friends, you know, think we’re crazy,” one digger said. “It’s not actually finding the treasure, it’s the quest.” https://abcn.ws/2rIxTJs | ABC News | Facebook

At the Crater of Diamonds State Park, visitors can search for real diamonds — and legally keep whatever they discover. Since opening to the public in 1972, more than 35,000 diamonds have been found. The park sits on an eroded volcanic crater, making it one of the only diamond-producing sites in the world open to the public. Visitors regularly find white, yellow, and even rare brown diamonds. The largest diamond discovered at the site weighed over 40 carats. It’s one of the few places on Earth wh