Oklahoma
Find Oklahoma travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
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Atomic Cannon and Mule Gun: Alternate Universe Arms
Fort Sill - Fort Sill has become the place to see two of the America’s most inventive weapons, because just down the street from the Atomic Cannon is the new U.S. Army Field Artillery Museum and its star exhibit, the Mule Gun. Full story
Featured Attractions
The Blue Whale
Catoosa, Oklahoma
Postcard darling of Route 66, the Blue Whale has fared better than its neighbor, Noah's Ark.
Oral Roberts Prayer Tower
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Spiritual Tower of Power for evangelist Oral Roberts -- closer to God, architecturally, anyway.
World's Largest Praying Hands
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ten titanic Christian digits reach heavenward at the entrance to Oral Roberts University.
Cow Chip Throwing Capital of the World
Beaver, Oklahoma
Cow chips, the dried remains of cow dung, are the Frisbees of the prairie. Flinging them has flung this small town to national fame.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Beaver: Cow Chip Throwing Capital of the World
- Big Cabin: Giant Indian Chief [tips]
- Boise City: Replica Bomb Crater
- Boise City: Steel Dinosaur [tips]
- Catoosa: The Blue Whale [tips]
- Claremore: Will Rogers Pocket Contents of Death [tips]
- Dewey: Tom Mix Suitcase of Death [tips]
- Durant: World's "Largest" Peanut [tips]
- Foyil: Route 66 Transcontinental Footrace
- Foyil: World's Largest Totem Pole
- Guthrie: Grave of Elmer McCurdy the Sideshow Mummy
- Heavener: Heavener Runestone
- Hooker: Home of the Horny Toads
- Hugo: Circus graves
- Hydro: Lucille's Historic Rt. 66 stop [tips]
- Mangum: 3rd Oldest Working Lightbulb
- Muskogee: Landlocked submarine [tips]
- Norman: James Garner Statue
- Nowata: Bowling Ball Fence [tips]
- Okemah: Water Towers - Hot, Cold, Woody Guthrie
- Okemah: Woody Guthrie Statue
- Oklahoma City: Bombing Memorial [tips]
- Oklahoma City: Mounted Fire Horses [tips]
- Pawnee: Pawnee Bill Museum
- Perry: Folk Art Protest Signs [tips]
- Sand Springs:Parking Lot Indian Burial Ground [tips]
- Skedee: Friendship with Chief Baconrind
- Tulsa: Big Oil Man statue (AKA The Golden Driller) [tips]
- Tulsa: Praying Hands
- Tulsa: Sonic Center of the Universe [tips]
- Vinita: World's "Largest McDonald's [tips]
- Wakita: Twister Museum [tips]
