Hundreds of graffiti artists have decorated this flood-wall on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

This rural roadside cross marks the farthest point of Coronado's expedition, and the place where the Catholic faith first came to America.

A 200-year-old live oak on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.

Established in 1890, this Jacksonville institution is the longest running music venue in the state of Florida.

The golden age of flight captured in a downtown airport.

Iconic figures in concrete and steel in the High Plains of Texas.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.

Long before Europeans arrived, Native Americans built an artificial island out of shells that has withstood a millennia of hurricanes.

This ranch on the banks of the Rio Grande is home to a little-known LGBTQ history of Mary Cabot Wheelwright, Marie Chabot, and two-spirit Navajo weaver Hastiin Klah.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

After being abandoned for decades, Oklahoma’s first air-conditioned theatre was reborn in the new century.

A crew of die-hard train buffs spent decades turning a defunct stretch of railway in Oklahoma City into a museum now home to over 50 antique and restored trains.

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

A historical house furnished with authentic pieces from the Victorian period.

The largest protected conservation area in the Ozarks—a region that stretches into northern Arkansas and southern Missouri.

A quirky mishmash of Route 66 memorabilia and other throwbacks from the past.

A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.

A likeness of Da Vinci's mysterious painting smiles at passersby from the side of a barn.

A small section of native wilderness on a university campus

What was once a summer home next to a waterfall has now become littered with graffiti and children in swimsuits.

The only remaining sod house Oklahoma built by a homesteader in 1894.