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Oklahoma Oddities

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Strange Museums

SKELETONS Museum

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

More than five hundred real skeletons fill an Oklahoma City museum where whales hang overhead and animals are stripped down to the architecture hidden beneath their…

Giant Objects

POPS Sixty-Six-Foot Soda Bottle

Arcadia, Oklahoma

A four-ton steel soda bottle rises sixty-six feet beside Route 66 and comes alive after dark with four thousand color-changing LEDs.

Curious Landmarks

Will Rogers Archway

Vinita, Oklahoma

A full service plaza bridges both directions of Interstate 44, letting travelers eat and shop while highway traffic rushes directly underneath the building.

Roadside Attractions

Center of the Universe

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Stand on one small circle above Tulsa's railroad tracks and your own voice returns with a peculiar metallic echo that sounds dramatically different from only a…

Roadside Attractions

Blue Whale of Catoosa

Catoosa, Oklahoma

An eighty-foot blue whale rises from a roadside pond, complete with a walk-in mouth, ladders, portholes, and the cheerful expression of a concrete sea monster stranded…

Curious Landmarks

Milk Bottle Grocery

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

A tiny triangular brick shop of only about 350 square feet supports a huge metal milk bottle on its roof, creating one of Route 66's strangest…

Curious Landmarks

Tulsa Cave House

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Twisting walls, false rock surfaces, irregular rooms, and almost no respect for straight lines make this 1920s roadside house look like architecture designed by erosion.

Giant Objects

Golden Driller

Tulsa, Oklahoma

A 43,500-pound oil worker towers over Tulsa's Expo Square, one arm resting against a real derrick as if the entire fairground were his job site.

Roadside Attractions

Ed Galloway’s Totem Pole Park

Chelsea, Oklahoma

A retired craftsman spent decades covering a rural property with towering concrete folk art, including a ninety-foot centerpiece standing on the back of a giant turtle.

Curious Landmarks

Gold Dome

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

A golden geodesic dome made from 625 panels turned a 1958 bank into a futuristic Route 66 landmark that still looks ready for launch.