Places dandjtrip Wants to Go

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

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

What is the Thing?

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

A natural rock formation believed to be a cure-all.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

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.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

Songwriter Leon Russell transformed this church into a recording studio used by many legendary musicians.

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a century-old passion play.