Places GeneralWaffles Wants to Go

This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

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

This museum holds not just a world class collection of firefighting artifacts and gear but even the region's first fire station itself.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

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

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

Celebrate the history of the rich and truly misunderstood relationship between man and pigeon.

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

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

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

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

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.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.