Places csieminski Wants to Go

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Is this 47.7-mile stretch of highway the longest straight road in the United States?

A crew of die-hard train buffs spent decades turning a defunct stretch of railway in Oklahoma City into a museum now home to over 50 antique and restored trains.

Located along historic Route 66, this former gas station has been restored and converted into a museum filled with vintage motorcycles.

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.

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

An Oklahoma museum that celebrates the history of the "Mother Road."

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

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

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

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

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

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.