Places sschmit2 Wants to Go

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

A Kansas nature preserve protecting the plants and animals that once stretched across central North America.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

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

The largest single-building tribal cultural center in the U.S. is an expansive museum in Oklahoma City.

The largest cattle market on earth holds live auctions open to the public every week.

Once the smallest park in the national system.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

A 28-exhibit museum about the history, culture, and oddities of money. Visitors stand in a cash shower, try to crack a vault, and discover what it's like to barter when no money is allowed.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

JFK's assassin rented a room in the boarding house in the weeks leading up to the 1963 shooting.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.

In Parr Park, thousands of painted rocks line this walking trail.

Fans are known to leave tributes to these two brothers, both heavy-metal legends.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.