Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma State Firefighters Museum
This museum holds not just a world class collection of firefighting artifacts and gear but even the region's first fire station itself.
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
This museum holds not just a world class collection of firefighting artifacts and gear but even the region's first fire station itself.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.
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.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.
Hugo, Oklahoma
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
Lawton, Oklahoma
American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Mobsters came for a soak in the hot springs, and stayed for the illegal gambling and bootlegging.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.
Tillar, Arkansas
Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.
Mount Ida, Arkansas
You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Yup, that's where the name came from.
Holly Grove, Arkansas
A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.
Magnet Cove, Arkansas
Home to a seasonal waterfall and swimming hole in the Ouachita Mountains.
Little Rock, Arkansas
A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa's historic skyscrapers define the oil boom era of Art Deco construction, and are known for their ornate arched lobbies.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.
Omaha, Nebraska
Haunted dolls, macabre artifacts, and more make up the collection of the “most haunted museum in the world.”
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Life-size figures portray depot attendants, train crew, and passengers frozen in time at the oldest railroad station in Arkansas.
Joiner, Arkansas
On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.