Hugo, Oklahoma
Showmen's Rest
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Hugo, Oklahoma
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
Heavener, Oklahoma
One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Kenton, Oklahoma
The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
The Colony, Texas
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
Shattuck, Oklahoma
Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.
Cache, Oklahoma
This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a century-old passion play.
Lawton, Oklahoma
American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.
St. Marys, Georgia
Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.
Savannah, Georgia
"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.
Saint Simons Island, Georgia
The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.