Come for the fried chicken, stay for the history at Oklahoma's oldest bar.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

One of the oldest standing structures in Montgomery County, Maryland.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

Tiny observatory made big contributions to the study of the Earth's motion.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.