Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

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

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

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

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

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

Built from oil field parts and resembling a teepee, this abandoned mid-century church is hoping for a comeback.

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

This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

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

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

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

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.