Places MissBex Wants to Go

Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.

On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.

Its incredible collection preserves 170 years of sewing machine history.

The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

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

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

A natural rock formation believed to be a cure-all.

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

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

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

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

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.

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

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

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

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

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

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