Places rbowptown Wants to Go

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."

Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

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

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

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

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

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

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

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

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.