Places goodepeggy Wants to Go

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.

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.

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

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

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

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

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

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The man who wasn't there.

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

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.