TULSA, OKLAHOMA
The Center of the Universe
An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Factory Obscura Mix-Tape
An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.
CATOOSA, OKLAHOMA
Blue Whale of Catoosa
Nature’s biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.
ARCADIA, OKLAHOMA
Pops
The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.
EDMOND, OKLAHOMA
Gandini’s Circus
Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma City Underground
Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.
PAULS VALLEY, OKLAHOMA
The Toy and Action Figure Museum
The world’s only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.
BARTLESVILLE, OKLAHOMA
Playtower
A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Museum of Osteology and Skulls Unlimited
Collection of skeletal systems from the “world’s leading supplier of osteological specimens.”
PICHER, OKLAHOMA
Picher
This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.
ARCADIA, OKLAHOMA
Old Route 66 Filling Station
Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.
CHELSEA, OKLAHOMA
Totem Pole Park
This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world’s largest concrete totem pole.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Cave House of Tulsa
A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Praying Hands
These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA
Wichita Mountains Buffalo Herd
American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.
SPIRO, OKLAHOMA
Spiro Mounds
Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.
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TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Philbrook Museum of Art
The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you’ve been transported to an Italian villa.
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA
Parallel Forest
A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
The Outsiders House Museum
Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.
STIGLER, OKLAHOMA
Younger’s Bend
The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.
HEAVENER, OKLAHOMA
Heavener Runestone
One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.
MIAMI, OKLAHOMA
Route 66 Sidewalk Highway
When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.
TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA
Mister Ed’s Grave
The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse’s head coming through a barn door.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Architectural DNA
An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA
Pentaceratops Skull: Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
The largest land animal skull ever discovered.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
99s Museum of Women Pilots
Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
American Banjo Museum
Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Boston Avenue Methodist Church
One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
The American Pigeon Museum
Celebrate the history of the rich and truly misunderstood relationship between man and pigeon.
HUGO, OKLAHOMA
Showmen’s Rest
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Abundant Life Building
This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Buck Atom
Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66’s muffler men.
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MIAMI, OKLAHOMA
Coleman Theatre
This historic theater’s pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.
PONCA CITY, OKLAHOMA
E.W. Marland Mansion
This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.
NOWATA, OKLAHOMA
Bowling Ball Yard Art
To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.
DURANT, OKLAHOMA
World’s Largest Peanut
No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world’s largest peanut.
TALALA, OKLAHOMA
Winganon Space Capsule
A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.
SKIATOOK, OKLAHOMA
The Healing Stone of Skiatook
A natural rock formation believed to be a cure-all.
CACHE, OKLAHOMA
Holy City of the Wichitas
This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a 90 year old passion play.
SHATTUCK, OKLAHOMA
Shattuck Windmill Museum
Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Golden Driller
The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Wheeler Ferris Wheel
The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA
Fort Sill
Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
45th Infantry Museum
A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler’s mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma Frontier Drugstore Museum
A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.
KENTON, OKLAHOMA
Black Mesa
The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw’s paradise.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Woody Guthrie Center
A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.
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GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA
Grave of Elmer McCurdy
A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.
QUAPAW, OKLAHOMA
Red Oak Steakhouse
The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Jamil’s Steakhouse
The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Cain’s Ballroom
Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.
BARTLESVILLE, OKLAHOMA
Woolaroc
An oil baron’s wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
The Church Studio
Songwriter Leon Russell transformed this church into a recording studio used by many legendary musicians.
ARCADIA, OKLAHOMA
Arcadia Round Barn
This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Rodeo Animal Cemetery
Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.
GRANITE, OKLAHOMA
Comecos Cemetery
Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.
CATOOSA, OKLAHOMA
D.W. Correll Museum
It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.
WEATHERFORD, OKLAHOMA
Dead Woman’s Crossing
This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Thirty Nine
Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant’s menu deliciously highlights local flavors.
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA
Scottish Rite Temple
One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.
COMMERCE, OKLAHOMA
Home of Mickey Mantle
The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.
AFTON, OKLAHOMA
Darryl Starbird’s National Rod and Custom Car Hall of Fame Museum
Collection maintained by the legendary designer.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Aviator’s Arrow
This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.
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TULSA, OKLAHOMA
Vintage Sewing Center and Museum
Its incredible collection preserves 170 years of sewing machine history.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA
BOK Tower
A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.
EDMOND, OKLAHOMA
Hopewell Baptist Church
Built from oil field parts and resembling a teepee, this abandoned mid-century church is hoping for a comeback.
PONCA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Pioneer Woman Statue
A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma State Firefighters Museum
This museum holds not just a world class collection of firefighting artifacts and gear but even the region’s first fire station itself.
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma Territorial Museum & The Carnegie Library
Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.
DEWEY, OKLAHOMA
Tom Mix Museum
This small-town museum is dedicated to the original western movie mega-star.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA
Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive
The largest collection of political commercials in the world.
GOODWELL, OKLAHOMA
No Man’s Land Historical Museum
On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man’s Land.
BARNSDALL, OKLAHOMA
Barnsdall Main Street Oil Well
A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.
BIXBY, OKLAHOMA
Washington Irving Memorial Park
One of New York’s most iconic authors is strangely honored by this Oklahoma park.
GOODWELL, OKLAHOMA
‘Øvret Peltesh’
At Oklahoma Panhandle State University, a plaque marks a place once known as No Man’s Land in the linear world and the fictional Kcymaerxthaere as well.
POTEAU, OKLAHOMA
Cavanal Hill
Known as the “World’s Highest Hill.”
OKARCHE, OKLAHOMA
Eischen’s Bar
Come for the fried chicken, stay for the history at Oklahoma’s oldest bar.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA
Seaba Station Motorcycle Museum
Located along historic Route 66, this former gas station has been restored and converted into a museum filled with vintage motorcycles.
PAWHUSKA, OKLAHOMA
Osage County Courthouse
Site of the 1926 murder trial of Ernest Burkhart who was involved in the “Reign of Terror.”
ALINE, OKLAHOMA
Sod House Museum
The only remaining sod house Oklahoma built by a homesteader in 1894.
SULPHUR, OKLAHOMA
Chickasaw National Recreation Area
Once the smallest park in the national system.
NOBLE, OKLAHOMA
Timberlake Rose Rock Museum
A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.
MCALESTER, OKLAHOMA
Ashmore Valero
A small wooden boat once owned by legendary actor Errol Flynn sits inside this Oklahoma gas station.
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