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

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

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

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

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

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

The home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle is now a library and museum dedicated to his memory.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.