Places kurtvanulmer Wants to Go

This three-dimensional brick mural is the longest of its kind in the United States.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

Enjoy a tour of oddities and makeshift monsters at this souvenir store with an offbeat sense of humor.

This 100-foot tall bluff located in the western plains of Kansas overlooks a massive reservoir.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

The holiday spirit lingers year-round in the "Christmas City of the High Plains."

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The highest waterfall between the Rockies and the Appalachian Mountains.

A 50-foot-tall replica of the infamous lamp from 'A Christmas Story' illuminates this small town.

In Oklahoma City's Bricktown, there's a street that don't use jelly.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

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

Once the smallest park in the national system.

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

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

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

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

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

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