Places Seabiscuit Wants to Go

Songwriter Leon Russell transformed this church into a recording studio used by many legendary musicians.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

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

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

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

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

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

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

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

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

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

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

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

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

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

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

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

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