Places michaelamiller Wants to Go

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

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

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

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

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

Part of a secret 1970s nuclear defense program is now open to the public.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.