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Elk City, Oklahoma

National Route 66 Museum

An Oklahoma museum that celebrates the history of the "Mother Road."
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Chandler, Oklahoma

Seaba Station Motorcycle Museum

Located along historic Route 66, this former gas station has been restored and converted into a museum filled with vintage motorcycles.
Added by bruceincharlotte
Jet, Oklahoma

Great Salt Plains

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.
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Aline, Oklahoma

Sod House Museum

The only remaining sod house Oklahoma built by a homesteader in 1894.
Added by amymarie03
Okarche, Oklahoma

Eischen's Bar

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

Oklahoma Territorial Museum & The Carnegie Library

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.
Added by mwilliams
Spiro, Oklahoma

Spiro Mounds

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.
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Denton, Texas

Goatman's Bridge

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.
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Glen Rose, Texas

Dinosaur Valley State Park

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
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Hearne, Texas

Grave in the Road

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.
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Lake Charles, Louisiana

Bilbo Cemetery

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.
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Fouke, Arkansas

Boggy Creek Monster

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.
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Texarkana, Texas

Ace of Clubs House

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.
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Waco, Texas

Doris Miller Memorial

Dedicated to the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross.
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Galveston, Texas

The Kettle House

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.
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Galveston, Texas

Betty Head Oleander Garden Park

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.
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Galveston, Texas

Pink Dolphin Monument

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.
Fred Cherrygarden Added by Fred Cherrygarden
Galveston, Texas

S. S. Selma

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.
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Port Arthur, Texas

Museum of the Gulf Coast

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.
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Nederland, Texas

Dutch Windmill Museum

A replica of a Dutch windmill in honor of those who settled in the region from the Netherlands.
Added by lennire
Zavalla, Texas

Sturrock Cemetery

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.
Added by Staci
Paris, Texas

Texas Eiffel Tower

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
Added by MarindaBramlett
Paris, Texas

Jesus in Cowboy Boots

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.
Added by lucrown1