An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

In Oklahoma City's Bricktown, there's a street that don't use jelly.

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

The largest single-building tribal cultural center in the U.S. is an expansive museum in Oklahoma City.

The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Sometimes called the “Little Golden Gate," this bright yellow structure is the last driveable suspension bridge in Arkansas.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

An indoor botanical garden for tropical plants looks like a giant cylinder lying on its side.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

This massive Art Deco-inspired mural was the world's largest augmented reality artwork at the time of its completion.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Healing waters from a holy well, previously used by locals for doing laundry.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

This work of art, which took 35 years to complete, has a motorway running through it.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

A bronze statue commemorating his royal meowjesty, Toulouse.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.