Weird day trips from Oklahoma City

The strangest Oklahoma City finds are often a short drive out. These 15 day trips — Fairlawn Cemetery (OKC's oldest), Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Oak, Ash & Thorn Metaphysical Shop and more — are each hand-vetted and sourced: ghost towns, hot-spring soaks, roadside oddities, and odd small-town museums worth the gas. A weird day trip is its own kind of date.

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Fairlawn Cemetery (OKC's oldest) Established 1892 on what was once a cornfield, Fairlawn is Oklahoma City's oldest cemetery, with roughly 40,0… Paseo / Uptown
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Founded in 1919 by a well-traveled Benedictine monk, this small but legitimately strange museum holds the onl… Shawnee
Oak, Ash & Thorn Metaphysical Shop A warmly eccentric witch's den tucked into historic downtown Shawnee, stocked with herbs, crystals, tarot dec… Shawnee
Stone Lion Inn The Stone Lion Inn is a sprawling 1907 Victorian mansion—once Guthrie's most expensive home, later a funeral… Guthrie
Constantine Theater The Constantine Theater is a beautifully restored 1911 opera house — built inside an 1880s hotel — listed on… Pawhuska
The Old Plantation Restaurant Built in 1910 as a cobblestone hotel that drew Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, and Will Rogers during the Roarin… Medicine Park
Muscle Car Ranch A genuine one-of-a-kind roadside attraction on a 100-year-old dairy farm, Muscle Car Ranch sprawls across 30+… Chickasha
Oklahoma Frontier Drugstore Museum & Apothecary Garden Housed in an 1890 building in Guthrie's historic district, this free museum showcases the territory's origina… Guthrie
G&M Body Shop Giant Transformers (Optimus Prime & Bumblebee) Body shop owner Mike McCubbin imported raw Transformer statues from Thailand, spent a year dismantling and re… Stillwater
OSU Insect Adventure (live bug petting zoo) OSU Extension's Insect Adventure is Oklahoma's only live bug petting zoo, housed on the OSU campus and staffe… Stillwater
The Chickasha Leg Lamp A legitimately 50-foot fiberglass fishnet-stocking leg — modeled on A Christmas Story's iconic prop and linke… Chickasha
Fort Reno Historic Spirit Tours Fort Reno's official lantern-lit Spirit Tours are a monthly event at this authentic 1874 cavalry post, taking… El Reno
Vendome Well Drilled in 1922, Vendome Well gushes 2,500 gallons per minute of carbon-14-dated water approximately 10,500 y… Sulphur
Elmer McCurdy's Grave Elmer McCurdy was a small-time Oklahoma train robber shot dead by a posse in 1911 — but death was only the be… Guthrie
Museum of Pioneer History Lincoln County's oldest commercial building, the 1898 Mascho Building, is so reputedly haunted that haunted-a… Chandler (Lincoln County)