Nowata, Oklahoma
Bowling Ball Yard Art
To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.
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Nowata, Oklahoma
To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.
Catoosa, Oklahoma
Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.
Chelsea, Oklahoma
This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.
Talala, Oklahoma
A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.
Kansas City, Missouri
The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Hutchinson, Kansas
Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.
Hutchinson, Kansas
The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.
Abilene, Kansas
A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.
Junction City, Kansas
A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.
Cawker City, Kansas
It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.
Wilson, Kansas
A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.
Wichita, Kansas
A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.
Wichita, Kansas
The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.
Lebanon, Kansas
Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.
Stratton, Colorado
When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.
Pueblo, Colorado
A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.