Guthrie, Oklahoma
Grave of Elmer McCurdy
A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.
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Guthrie, Oklahoma
A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.
Ponca City, Oklahoma
This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
This museum shaped like an inflating balloon celebrates the sport’s buoyant achievements.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.
Seoul, South Korea
Celebrating the history of Hangul, the Korean writing system invented by King Sejong to improve his realm’s literacy.
Seoul, South Korea
A symbol of hope, survival, and national character, especially after it rose phoenix like from the flames.
Seogwipo, South Korea
The history of the plush toy and South Korea collected under one roof.
Santorini, Greece
A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Athens, Greece
Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.
Athens, Greece
An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.
Athens, Greece
Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.