Hugo, Oklahoma
Showmen's Rest
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
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Hugo, Oklahoma
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
Tulsa, Oklahoma
This 1930s-era Route 66 Tulsa landmark was moved, restored, and filled with neon.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The largest single-building tribal cultural center in the U.S. is an expansive museum in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.
Granite, Oklahoma
Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.
Quapaw, Oklahoma
The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.
Stigler, Oklahoma
The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.
Heavener, Oklahoma
One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.
Spiro, Oklahoma
Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.
Chelsea, Oklahoma
This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."
Picher, Oklahoma
This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.
Baltimore, Maryland
Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.
Alderson, West Virginia
This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.
Morgantown, West Virginia
This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.
Fairfield, Pennsylvania
The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.