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Oil

Thorla-McKee Well

The United States’s love for black gold began with the accidental discovery of oil in the Ohio countryside.

Lake Tyers Beach, Australia

Australia’s First Oil Well

The site of the the first evidence of oil occurrence in Australia.

Morgan City, Louisiana

Rig Museum

The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.

Taiwan Oil Field Exhibition Hall

Where Taiwan found its oil...

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Denver Avenue Station

In Tulsa's Oil Capital historic district, even the bus station is "fauxback" Art Deco.

Bahrain Oil Well No. 1

This unassuming oil well changed the history of the Arabian Gulf.

Tanuf

The ruins in this village were caused by something more sinister than neglect.

East Texas Oil Museum

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

Neodesha, Kansas

Norman No. 1 Replica Oil Well

This replica oil derrick stands where a tiny Kansas town struck big in 1852, kicking off America's biggest oil boom.

The World's Largest Gas Kan.

World's Largest Gas Kan

Don't pass Gas, stop and enjoy it.

Oil Springs, Ontario

Oil Museum of Canada

A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

By 1994, the seaweed had died back on Mearns Rock and mussels were elbowing in.

Alaskans Have Photographed This Boulder for 33 Years

In 1990, a scientist began visually documenting Prince William Sound’s recovery from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. When funding ran out, volunteers took over.

J. Besl June 12, 2023

An oil rig near the museum.

Taft, California

West Kern Oil Museum

Wander through desolate oil fields littered with rigs.

The ruins of Thornhill, built in the shape of a Maltese Cross. It was three stories tall.

Walker, West Virginia

Volcano Historic Boomtown

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

The C&H Refinery in Lusk, Wyoming, as it looked in 2013, 80 years after it was established.

One Man's Quest to Preserve the World's Smallest Oil Refinery

The dusty, rusty site in eastern Wyoming is a rare relic of the 20th-century petroleum boom.

Nadia White November 5, 2021

Millicent Library

Fairhaven, Massachusetts

Millicent Library

Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.

Open field in front of a condominium.

Jiayuguan Shi, China

Yumen Ghost Town

This once-booming oil city is now a relic of the region's industrial past.

Official start to the Dalton Highway

Fairbanks, Alaska

Haul Road (Dalton Highway)

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.