Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

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

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

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

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

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

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.