This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

A natural rock formation believed to be a cure-all.

It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

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

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.