Places goodepeggy Wants to Go

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

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

The largest collection of political commercials in the world.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

One of New York's most iconic authors is strangely honored by this Oklahoma park.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.