Places ciffergan Wants to Go

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

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

The famous greeting card maker owns a collection of paintings by the famed surrealist.

Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.

Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.