Marfa, Texas
The Sentinel
With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Marfa, Texas
With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Marfa, Texas
This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.
Marfa, Texas
Not everything is bigger in Texas.
Marfa, Texas
A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.
Grapevine, Texas
A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.
Skiatook, Oklahoma
A natural rock formation believed to be a cure-all.
Barnsdall, Oklahoma
A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
The only fully-realized skyscraper built by the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Tampa, Florida
This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.
Tampa, Florida
Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
St. Petersburg, Florida
A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.
Glendale, California
A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Once the smallest park in the national system.
Durant, Oklahoma
No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.
Los Angeles, California
Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.
Dallas, Texas
The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."